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NACP Peatland Landcover Type and Wildfire Burn Severity Maps, Alberta, Canada

Metadata Updated: February 21, 2025

This data set provides landcover maps of (1) peatland type (bog, fen, marsh, swamp) with levels of biomass (open, forested) and (2) Burn Severity Index (BSI) (Dyrness and Norum, 1983) for four wildfire areas in northern Alberta, Canada. The four wildfire sites include the Utikuma fire site of 2011, Kidney Lake fire site of 2011, Fort McMurray west fire site of 2009, and Fort McMurray east fire site of 2009. The peatland classification at 12.5-m resolution (fen vs. bog including treed vs. open vs. shrubby) at each wildfire site was based on a pre-burn 2007 multi-date, multi-sensor fusion (Optical-IR, C-band and L-band SAR) approach. Over 350 field locations were sampled in central Alberta to train and validate the peatland type maps. The additional site, Wabasca, was an unburned site. Burn severity was measured in the field using the Burn Severity Index (BSI) (Dyrness and Norum 1987), a qualitative assessment of burnt moss that uses a 1-5 scale, with 1 being unburnt and 5 being severely burnt. The field data of ground consumption were correlated with Landsat pre- and post-burn imagery, specific to peatlands, to develop multivariate models for calculating burn severity and %-not-sphagnum-moss. These models were used to generate the Burn Severity Maps at 30-m resolution (percent unburned moss, and the burn severity index (BSI)). All sites were visited in 2013 for field measurements and the Utikuma site was also visited in 2012 for field measurements. Additional biophysical data for the various peatlands (aboveground biomass – tree and shrub, plant heights, density, etc. were collected and will be provided in another data set.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date February 21, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 21, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from nasa test json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date February 21, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 21, 2025
Publisher ORNL_DAAC
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2022-11-21
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
Category NACP, geospatial
Public Access Level public
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Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1283
Metadata Type geospatial
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Program Code 026:001
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Source Hash 6386e06e0144d3fd120f65e7f85c5c4a47b42f49710fc82a78694f6ca899675e
Source Schema Version 1.1
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Temporal 2010-06-17T00:00:00Z/2013-07-22T23:59:59Z

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