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Description

This dataset provides two 30-m resolution time series products of annual land cover classifications over the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) core domain for each year of the period 1984-2014. The data are the annual dominant plant functional type in a given 30-m pixel derived from Landsat surface reflectance, landcover training data mapped across the ABoVE domain (using Random Forests modeling, with clustering and interpretation of field photography) and very high resolution imagery to assign land cover classifications. One product has a 15-class land cover classification that breaks out forest and shrub types into several additional classes; the other product provides a simplified, 10-class approach. Classification accuracy assessment results are provided per year. Assessments were based on a probability-based random sample of reference data that supported statistically robust estimation of areas and uncertainties in mapped areas.

Product Summary

Platforms
MODELS ,
LANDSAT-5 ,
LANDSAT-7
Instruments
Computer ,
TM ,
ETM+
Spatial Extent

N: 76.2257 S: 50.259 E: -98.974 W: -170.006

Location
ALASKA ,
CANADA
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1984-01-01 to 2014-12-31
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2143403402-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
352
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Land Use/Land Cover Classification ,
Forests ,
Vegetation Cover ,
Alpine/Tundra ,
Reflectance ,
Dominant Species

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Wang, J. A., Sulla-Menashe, D., Woodcock, C. E., Sonnentag, O., Keeling, R. F., & Friedl, M. A. (2019). ABoVE: Landsat-derived Annual Dominant Land Cover Across ABoVE Core Domain, 1984-2014 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1691 Date Accessed: 2026-05-01

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Multi-scale snow depth mapping in Interior Alaska using remote sensing Brodylo, David, Douglas, Thomas A., Vas, Dragos A., Zhang, Caiyun Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species, Snow Depth
Exploring the potential of Harmonized Landsat-Sentinel-2 in predicting boreal forest structure from UAV-LiDAR data in Northwestern America Enguehard, Lea, Kruse, Stefan, Hansch, Ronny, Herzschuh, Ulrike, Panda, Santosh, Heim, Birgit Vegetation Cover, Forests, Canopy Characteristics, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species, Plant Phenological Changes, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Phenology, Evergreen Vegetation, Vegetation Index
Climate impacts from North American boreal forest fires van Gerrevink, Max J., Veraverbeke, Sander, Cooperdock, Sol, Potter, Stefano, Zhong, Qirui, Moubarak, Michael, Virkkala, Anna-Maria, Goetz, Scott J., Mack, Michelle C., Randerson, James T., Schutgens, Nick, Turetsky, Merritt R., van der Werf, Guido R., Rogers, Brendan M. Radiative Forcing, Forests, Alpine/Tundra, Albedo, Vegetation Cover, Biomass Burning, Surface Temperature, Precipitation Amount, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence, Carbon, Burned Area, Biomass, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Topographic Effects, Emissions, Carbon, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Reflectance, Dominant Species, Respiration Rate, Carbon Flux, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Gross Primary Production (gpp), Soil Respiration, NET ECOSYSTEM CO2 EXCHANGE (NEE), Anisotropy
Mapping permafrost thaw stages in interior Alaska Zhang, Caiyun, Douglas, Thomas A., Brodylo, David, Jorgenson, M. Torre, Bosche, Lauren V. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
The biogeophysical impacts of land cover change on climate extremes in the Arctic and Boreal regions Li, Shuai, Yang, Di, He, Yaqian, Parazoo, Nicholas, Liu, Wei Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Limited Immediate Effects of Wildfire on Alaska Moose Harvest Brinkman, Todd J., Schmidt, Jennifer I., Paragi, Thomas F. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Ecosystems Disturbance Recovery: What It Was or What It Could Have Been? Dashti, Hamid, Chen, Min, Smith, William K., Zhao, Kaiguang, Moore, David J. P. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Canopy Characteristics, Plant Phenology
Geospatial analysis of Alaskan lakes indicates wetland fraction and surface water area are useful predictors of methane ebullition Savignano, Michela J., Kyzivat, Ethan D., Smith, Laurence C., Engram, Melanie Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species, Length of Growing Season, Water Color, Visible Radiance, Lakes/Reservoirs, Lake Ice, Methane
Identification of vulnerable areas using geospatial technologies in the lower Manair River basin of Telangana, Southern India Guddeti, Sravya Sai, Kurakalva, Rama Mohan, Karuppannan, Shankar Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Phenology and Plant Functional Type Link Optical Properties of Vegetation Canopies to Patterns of Vertical Vegetation Complexity Jurayj, Duncan, Bowers, Rebecca, Fayne, Jessica V. Aquatic Ecosystems, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Vegetation, Soils, Maximum/Minimum Temperature, 24 Hour Precipitation Amount, Snow Water Equivalent, Shortwave Radiation, Vapor Pressure, Reflectance, Terrain Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Sea Ice Elevation, VEGETATION HEIGHT, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Dominant Species, Plant Phenology, Land Use/Land Cover, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Sensor Counts
Quantification of active layer depth at multiple scales in Interior Alaska permafrost Brodylo, David, Douglas, Thomas A, Zhang, Caiyun Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence (SIF): Towards a Better Understanding of Vegetation Dynamics and Carbon Uptake in Arctic-Boreal Ecosystems Cheng, Rui Primary Production, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Gross Primary Production (gpp), Reflectance, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Dominant Species, Chlorophyll, Photosynthesis, Leaf Characteristics, Solar Induced Fluorescence
Warming and disturbances affect Arctic-boreal vegetation resilience across northwestern North America Zhang, Yue, Wang, Jonathan A., Berner, Logan T., Goetz, Scott J., Zhao, Kaiguang, Liu, Yanlan Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Fire Occurrence, Emissions, Forests, Carbon, Burned Area, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species, DISTURBANCE, Vegetation Cover
Wildfireinduced increases in photosynthesis in boreal forest ecosystems of North America Kim, Jinhyuk E., Wang, Jonathan A., Li, Yue, Czimczik, Claudia I., Randerson, James T. Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Solar Induced Fluorescence, Aquatic Ecosystems, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Vegetation, Soils, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Integrating very-high-resolution UAS data and airborne imaging spectroscopy to map the fractional composition of Arctic plant functional types in Western Alaska Yang, Dedi, Morrison, Bailey D., Hanston, Wouter, McMahon, Andrew, Baskaran, Latha, Hayes, Daniel J., Miller, Charles E., Serbin, Shawn P. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Implications of alder shrub growth for alpine tundra soil properties in Interior Alaska Welch, Allison M., Pedron, Shawn A., Jespersen, Robert Gus, Xu, Xiaomei, Martinez, Brittney, Khazindar, Yezzen, Fiore, Nicole M., Goulden, Michael L., Czimczik, Claudia I. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species, Carbon, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Nitrogen, Soil Bulk Density, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
Peatlands promote fire refugia in boreal forests of northern Alberta Kuntzemann, Christine E., Whitman, Ellen, Stralberg, Diana, Parisien, MarcAndre, Thompson, Dan K., Nielsen, Scott E. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Characterizing Near-Nadir and Low Incidence Ka-Band SAR Backscatter from Wet Surfaces and Diverse Land Covers Fayne, Jessica V., Smith, Laurence C., Liao, Tien-Hao, Pitcher, Lincoln H, Denbina, Michael, Chen, Albert C., Simard, Marc, Chen, Curtis W., Williams, Brent A. Lakes/Reservoirs, Rivers/Streams, Wetlands, Radar Backscatter, Terrain Elevation, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Evaluating photosynthetic activity across Arctic-Boreal land cover types using solar-induced fluorescence Cheng, Rui, Magney, Troy S, Orcutt, Erica L, Pierrat, Zoe, Kohler, Philipp, Bowling, David R, Bret-Harte, M Syndonia, Euskirchen, Eugenie S, Jung, Martin, Kobayashi, Hideki, Rocha, Adrian V, Sonnentag, Oliver, Stutz, Jochen, Walther, Sophia, Zona, Donatella, Frankenberg, Christian Aquatic Ecosystems, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Vegetation, Soils, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species, Snow Cover
Dispersal and fire limit Arctic shrub expansion Liu, Yanlan, Riley, William J., Keenan, Trevor F., Mekonnen, Zelalem A., Holm, Jennifer A., Zhu, Qing, Torn, Margaret S. Fire Occurrence, Forest Fire Science, Burned Area, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Landscape Genomics Provides Evidence of Ecotypic Adaptation and a Barrier to Gene Flow at Treeline for the Arctic Foundation Species Eriophorum ... Stunz, Elizabeth, Fetcher, Ned, Lavretsky, Philip, Mohl, Jonathon E., Tang, Jianwu, Moody, Michael L. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Climate-induced fire regime amplification in Alberta, Canada Whitman, Ellen, Parks, Sean A, Holsinger, Lisa M, Parisien, Marc-Andre Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Time-series maps reveal widespread change in plant functional type cover across Arctic and boreal Alaska and Yukon Macander, Matthew J, Nelson, Peter R, Nawrocki, Timm W, Frost, Gerald V, Orndahl, Kathleen M, Palm, Eric C, Wells, Aaron F, Goetz, Scott J Aquatic Ecosystems, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Vegetation, Soils, Vegetation Cover, Forests, Alpine/Tundra, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Reflectance, Dominant Species
The Importance of Lake Emergent Aquatic Vegetation for Estimating ArcticBoreal Methane Emissions Kyzivat, Ethan D., Smith, Laurence C., GarciaTigreros, Fenix, Huang, Chang, Wang, Chao, Langhorst, Theodore, Fayne, Jessica V., Harlan, Merritt E., Ishitsuka, Yuta, Feng, Dongmei, Dolan, Wayana, Pitcher, Lincoln H, Wickland, Kimberly P., Dornblaser, Mark M., Striegl, Robert G., Pavelsky, Tamlin M., Butman, David E., Gleason, Colin J. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Dominant Species, Wetlands, Wetlands, VISIBLE IMAGERY, Rivers/Stream, Infrared Imagery, Lake/Pond, Surface Water Features, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance
Short-interval fires increasing in the Alaskan boreal forest as fire self-regulation decays across forest types Buma, B., Hayes, K., Weiss, S., Lucash, M. Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Underestimation of the impact of land cover change on the biophysical environment of the Arctic and boreal region of North America Dashti, Hamid, Smith, William K, Huo, Xueli, Fox, Andrew M, Javadian, Mostafa, Devine, Charles J, Behrangi, Ali, Moore, David J P Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Using atmospheric observations to quantify annual biogenic carbon dioxide fluxes on the Alaska North Slope Schiferl, Luke D., Watts, Jennifer D., Larson, Erik J. L., Arndt, Kyle A., Biraud, Sebastien C., Euskirchen, Eugenie S., Goodrich, Jordan P., Henderson, John M., Kalhori, Aram, McKain, Kathryn, Mountain, Marikate E., Munger, J. William, Oechel, Walter C., Sweeney, Colm, Yi, Yonghong, Zona, Donatella, Commane, Roisin Air Temperature, Alpine/Tundra, Solar Induced Fluorescence, Soil Temperature, Vegetation Cover, NET ECOSYSTEM CO2 EXCHANGE (NEE), Primary Production, Respiration Rate, Biogeochemical Cycles, Carbon, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Boundary Layer Winds, Soil Respiration, Gross Primary Production (gpp), Wind Dynamics, Methane, Carbon Flux, Carbon, Soil Respiration, Permafrost, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Upper Air Temperature, Humidity, Wind Speed, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Disturbance suppresses the aboveground carbon sink in North American boreal forests Wang, Jonathan A., Baccini, Alessandro, Farina, Mary, Randerson, James T., Friedl, Mark A. Biomass, Forests, Grasslands, Alpine/Tundra, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Cover, Reflectance, Dominant Species, Canopy Characteristics, Carbon
Characterization of Near-Nadir Ka-Band Scattering from Wet Surfaces Fayne, Jessica V., Smith, Laurence C. Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Lakes/Reservoirs, Rivers/Streams, Wetlands, Radar Backscatter, Terrain Elevation, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Spring phenology drives range shifts in a migratory Arctic ungulate with key implications for the future Severson, John P., Johnson, Heather E., Arthur, Stephen M., Leacock, William B., Suitor, Michael J. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Soil respiration strongly offsets carbon uptake in Alaska and Northwest Canada Watts, Jennifer D, Natali, Susan M, Minions, Christina, Risk, Dave, Arndt, Kyle, Zona, Donatella, Euskirchen, Eugenie S, Rocha, Adrian V, Sonnentag, Oliver, Helbig, Manuel, Kalhori, Aram, Oechel, Walt, Ikawa, Hiroki, Ueyama, Masahito, Suzuki, Rikie, Kobayashi, Hideki, Celis, Gerardo, Schuur, Edward A G, Humphreys, Elyn, Kim, Yongwon, Lee, Bang-Yong, Goetz, Scott, Madani, Nima, Schiferl, Luke D, Commane, Roisin, Kimball, John S, Liu, Zhihua, Torn, Margaret S, Potter, Stefano, Wang, Jonathan A, Jorgenson, M Torre, Xiao, Jingfeng, Li, Xing, Edgar, Colin Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Aquatic Ecosystems, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Vegetation, Soils, Fire Occurrence, Fire Dynamics, Burned Area, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species, Soil Temperature, Carbon Flux, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Soil Respiration, Gross Primary Production (gpp), Air Temperature, Solar Induced Fluorescence, NET ECOSYSTEM CO2 EXCHANGE (NEE)
Extensive land cover change across ArcticBoreal Northwestern North America from disturbance and climate forcing Wang, Jonathan A., SullaMenashe, Damien, Woodcock, Curtis E., Sonnentag, Oliver, Keeling, Ralph F., Friedl, Mark A. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species
The role of land cover change in Arctic-Boreal greening and browning trends Wang, Jonathan A, Friedl, Mark A Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Vegetation Cover, Alpine/Tundra, Reflectance, Dominant Species, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Canopy Characteristics, Plant Phenology
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