Post-Fire Vegetation and Field Data from NWT Canada, 2018
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Description
2018 field data from the Northwest Territories, Canada, provides vegetation community characteristics from areas burned by wildfire in 2014 and 2015, plus nine unburned validation sites. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration collected inventories of ground cover, regrowth, tree dimensions, woody seedlings, soil moisture, and depth to frozen ground. This fieldwork completed four years of sampling at the wildfire areas.
Use Cases
Model post-fire vegetation regrowth based on tree diameter and height data
Validate UAVSAR airborne soil moisture measurements using ground-collected soil moisture data
Compare burned and unburned site characteristics based on vegetation inventories and ground cover
Analyze woody seedling and sprouting dynamics in fire-affected areas
Strengths
Data collection completed four years of field sampling at the wildfire areas, providing temporal depth
Includes measurements from nine unburned validation sites for comparative analysis
Contains multiple vegetation and biophysical variables like soil moisture and depth to frozen ground
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
Source
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Collection Method
Fieldwork and ground-based data collection
Time Range
2018
Freshness
Last updated 2026-03-12 19:47:35.622437; freshness should be verified
Geography
Northwest Territories, Canada
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