Wildfire Carbon Emissions and Burned Plot Data for Northwest Territories

Field data from 2015-2016 provides measurements from 211 burned and 36 unburned plots following 2014 wildfires near Yellowknife, Canada. The dataset combines these ground measurements with 30-meter resolution modeled estimates of carbon emissions and uncertainty across the burned area. This work was produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) Project.

Use Cases

• Modeling carbon emissions from boreal wildfires using field-measured soil carbon and aboveground combustion data.
• Assessing burn severity and its impact on tree cover and species composition via delta normalized burn ratio (dNBR) and plot characteristics.
• Validating remote sensing emission models with ground-truth data from seven independent burn scars.
• Analyzing spatial variability in carbon combustion using 30-m grid cell estimates of emissions in g/m2.

Strengths

• Includes detailed ground measurements from 247 total field plots (211 burned, 36 unburned), providing validation data.
• Emissions are modeled at a high 30-meter spatial resolution across 29 tiles of the ABoVE reference grid.
• Covers a specific, significant fire event (2014 NWT wildfires) with field data collected the following two years (2015-2016).
• Estimates include quantified uncertainty from both field observations and the statistical regression model.

Limitations

• Key metadata conflicts exist: the last updated date is listed as both 2016-08-01 and 2026-03 13 across platforms.
• Specific column names, row counts, and dataset size are not provided by any source.
• License is ambiguously listed as 'other-license-specified', requiring further investigation for reuse.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Statistical modeling based on field plot measurements of carbon consumption, applied to Landsat-derived dNBR data within fire perimeters.

Time Range

2014-2016

Freshness

2026-03-13 20:11:07.624526

Geography

2014 wildfire sites near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada.