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ABoVE: Characterization of Burned and Unburned Spruce Forest Sites, Tanana, AK, 2017

Published by ORNL_DAAC | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Catalog Last Checked: September 01, 2026 at 11:08 PM | Dataset Last Updated: September 01, 2026
This dataset provides the results of field observations of soil characteristics and depth to permafrost, survey results for Composite Burn Index (CBI) determination, and Landsat-derived estimates of Relative Difference Normalized Burn Ratio (RdNBR) for 38 burned and unburned forest sites near Tanana, Alaska in 2017. Forests in the study area, at the confluence of the Yukon and Tanana Rivers about 200 km west of Fairbanks, are predominately black spruce on wetter soils and white spruce on drier soils. The burned areas were from wildfires that occurred in the summer of 2015.

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