ABoVE: Burn Severity and Fire Progression, NWT Canada 2015-2016

NASA's ABoVE data set provides a fire progression map for 2015 and field data from areas burned by wildfires in 2014 and 2015 in Canada's Northwest Territories. Field data collected in 2016 include estimates of burn severity, woody seedling/sprouting data, soil moisture, peat depth, thaw depth, and vegetation cover for selected sites. The data was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling post-fire vegetation recovery based on woody seedling and sprouting data.
• Analyzing relationships between burn severity and soil properties like moisture and thaw depth.
• Mapping fire progression and intensity for specific years in the Northwest Territories.
• Studying the impact of wildfires on peatland depth and carbon storage.

Strengths

• Includes multi-year data for fires in 2014 and 2015 with field validation in 2016.
• Combines a fire progression map with multiple field-measured variables like soil moisture and vegetation cover.
• Produced by the authoritative source NASA.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is focused on a specific region (NWT, Canada) and time period, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Likely combines satellite remote sensing for fire progression with on-the-ground field measurements.

Time Range

2015-2016, with references to fires from 2014 and 2015.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-12 19:41:10.298916; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northwest Territories, Canada.