Post-Fire Vegetation and Soil Data from 42 Sites in Northwest Territories, 2019

42 study sites in the Northwest Territories, Canada, provide vegetation community characteristics, soil moisture, and biophysical data collected in 2019. The dataset, from NASA's ABoVE campaign, focuses on 28 sites burned in 2014-2015 and 14 unburned sites, capturing regrowth, peat depth, and active layer thickness. This fieldwork completes five years of sampling for validation of UAVSAR and Radarsat-2 remote sensing collections.

Use Cases

• Model post-fire vegetation regrowth based on woody and non-woody seedling/sprouting data.
• Validate satellite-derived soil moisture and active layer thickness measurements with in-situ field data.
• Compare ecological characteristics between burned peatland/upland sites and unburned reference sites.
• Analyze relationships between ground cover, vegetation inventory, and soil parameters in a fire-affected landscape.

Strengths

• Data from 42 distinct field sites (28 burned, 14 unburned) provides a comparative basis.
• Includes multi-year context, with 2019 data completing five years of field sampling.
• Measurements like total peat depth, soil moisture, and active layer thickness support remote sensing validation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Field data collection at study areas in Northwest Territories, Canada.

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-12 19:52:07.529731; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada