Post-Fire Vegetation and Field Data from NWT Canada, 2018

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