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nasa-ornldaac-1096

NACP Forest Age Maps at 1-km Resolution for Canada (2004) and the U.S.A. (2006)

ABSTRACT: This data set provides forest age map products at 1-km resolution for Canada and the United States (U.S.A.). These continental forest age maps were compiled from forest inventory data, historical fire data, optical satellite data, and the images from NASA’s Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System (LEDAPS) project. These input data products have various sources and creation dates as described in the source paper by Pan et al. (2011). Canadian maps were produced with data available through 2004 and U.S.A. maps with data available through 2006. A supplementary map of the standard deviations for age estimates was developed for quantifying uncertainty. Note that the Pan et al. (2011) paper is included as a companion file with this data set and was the source of descriptions in the guide. Forest age, implicitly reflecting the past disturbance legacy, is a simple and direct surrogate for the time since disturbance and may be used in various forest carbon analyses that concern the impact of disturbances. By combining geographic information about forest age with estimated carbon dynamics by forest type, it is possible to conduct a simple but powerful analysis of the net CO2 uptake by forests, and the potential for increasing (or decreasing) this rate as a result of direct human intervention in the disturbance/age status.

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Identified by : NA_TREEAGE

This dataset was released on January 01, 2012.

The time range for this dataset is January 01, 1950 to December 31, 2006.

The spatial range for this dataset is 7.7126° to 67.008° latitude, and 179.251° to -39.866° longitude. map (center)

This dataset uses data from an instance of the enhanced-thematic-mapper-plus instrument on the landsat-7 platform.
DOI : 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1096
Also known as :

• identifier 5811c912-6928-42b2-881e-d9fb81d505fd (datagov lexicon)
• dataset nacp-forest-age-maps-at-1-km-resolution-for-canada-2004-and-the-u-s-a-2006 (datagov lexicon)
• dataset oai:mercury-ops2.ornl.gov:ornldaac_1096 (ornl lexicon)
• dataset oai:mercury.ornl.gov:ornldaac_1096 (ornl lexicon)