Long-Term Record of Sampled Disturbances in Northern Eurasian Boreal Forest from Pre-2000 Landsat Data

dc.contributor.authorChen, Dong
dc.contributor.authorLoboda, Tatiana
dc.contributor.authorChannan, Saurabh
dc.contributor.authorHoffman-Hall, Amanda
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-23T17:17:23Z
dc.date.available2024-01-23T17:17:23Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-27
dc.description.abstractStand age distribution is an important descriptor of boreal forest structure, which is directly linked to many ecosystem processes including the carbon cycle, the land–atmosphere interaction and ecosystem services, among others. Almost half of the global boreal biome is located in Russia. The vast extent, remote location, and limited accessibility of Russian boreal forests make remote sensing the only feasible approach to characterize these forests to their full extent. A wide variety of satellite observations are currently available to monitor forest change and infer its structure; however, the period of observations is mostly limited to the 2000s era. Reconstruction of wall-to-wall maps of stand age distribution requires merging longer-term site observations of forest cover change available at the Landsat scale at a subset of locations in Russia with the wall-to-wall coverage available from coarse resolution satellites since 2000. This paper presents a dataset consisting of a suite of multi-year forest disturbance samples and samples of undisturbed forests across Russia derived from Landsat Thematic Mapper and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus images from 1985 to 2000. These samples provide crucial information regarding disturbance history in selected regions across the Russian boreal forest and are designed to serve as a training and/or validation dataset for coarse resolution data products. The overall accuracy and Kappa coefficient for the entire sample collection was found to be 83.98% and 0.83%, respectively. It is hoped that the presented dataset will benefit subsequent studies on a variety of aspects of the Russian boreal forest, especially in relation to the carbon budget and climate.
dc.description.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/rs6076020
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/dspace/7yxo-ye3z
dc.identifier.citationChen, D.; Loboda, T.; Channan, S.; Hoffman-Hall, A. Long-Term Record of Sampled Disturbances in Northern Eurasian Boreal Forest from Pre-2000 Landsat Data. Remote Sens. 2014, 6, 6020-6038.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/31590
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.relation.isAvailableAtCollege of Behavioral & Social Sciencesen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtGeographyen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, MD)en_us
dc.subjectboreal forest
dc.subjectRussia
dc.subjectforest disturbance
dc.subjectLandsat
dc.subjectMODIS
dc.subjectremote sensing
dc.subjectdisturbance mapping
dc.subjectNothern Eurasia
dc.titleLong-Term Record of Sampled Disturbances in Northern Eurasian Boreal Forest from Pre-2000 Landsat Data
dc.typeArticle
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