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    • ABoVE: Burn Severity of Soil Organic Matter, Northwest Territories, Canada, 2014-2015

    Metadata Updated: August 30, 2025

    This dataset provides maps at 30-m resolution of landscape surface burn severity (surface litter and soil organic layers) from the 2014-2015 fires in the Northwest Territories and Northern Alberta, Canada. The maps were derived from Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager/Thermal Infrared Sensor (OLI/TIRS) imagery and two separate multiple linear regression models trained with field data; one for the Plains and a second for the Shield ecoregion. Field observations were used to estimate area burned in each of five severity classes (unburned, singed, light, moderate, severely burned) in six stratified randomly selected plots of 10 x 10-m in size across a 1-ha site. Using this five class scale a burn severity index (BSI) for each 1-ha site was calculated using multiple weighted and averaged field parameters. Pre- and post-fire phenologically paired Landsat 8 images were used to model the five discrete severity classes using midpoints as breaks.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1694
    Data Last Modified 2025-08-27
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=NWT_Burn_Severity_Maps_1694&ac=true
    Old Spatial {"WestBoundingCoordinate":-124.03,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":65.5514,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-108.834,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":58.2864},"CARTESIAN"
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash fee4b9843ee5c910bfcfd53ab23739dfc2326917257a7fa7ccf2c17400548b80
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2014-05-01/2014-05-01

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