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NACP North American Forest Dynamics Project: Forest Disturbance and Regrowth Data

Metadata Updated: August 29, 2025

This data set provides the results of time-series analyses of Landsat imagery for 55 selected forested sites across the conterminous U.S.A. The output is a pair of disturbance data products for each site, one showing the first year of disturbance in the time series, the other showing the last year of disturbance. Each data pixel is labeled as either a static land class (persistent non-forest, persistent forest, or persistent water) or with the year of change for disturbed forest pixels. The time period analyzed is approximately 1984-2009.These forest disturbance data are distributed as a single band GeoTiff, with appropriate projection information defined within the file. The analyses were performed in three phases: 5 sites during the Prototype/Focal phase; 23 sites in Phase I; and 27 sites in Phase II. The spatial resolution of the Prototype/Focal and Phase I data is 28.5 meters. The spatial resolution of the Phase II data is 30 meters. The temporal resolution is nominally biennial. The mapped area for each forested site is approximately 185 km x 185 km. There are a total of 110 GeoTiff files â?? a first year and a last year of disturbance file for each of the 55 sites.

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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 29, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date August 29, 2025
Publisher ORNL_DAAC
Maintainer
Identifier 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1077
Data Last Modified 2025-08-28
Category Earth Science
Category Tag 16E15F51 D96E 4051 9124 75665Abdc6Ff "Ecosystem Vulnerability","Land Cover and Land Use"
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 60fbb0c2-cc5e-4710-af22-dbea7a78d07f
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=NAFD_Disturbance_1077&ac=true
Old Spatial {"WestBoundingCoordinate":-126.458,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":49.7924,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-67.9596,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":26.5202},"CARTESIAN"
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 1a11fc6bcafc65ff9dd627b151d487f67188ff5db0857990d51d17f5b1fb638e
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 1984-06-04/1984-06-04

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