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Wildfires_2014_NWT_Canada_1307·v1·dataset

How badly 2014 wildfires burned NW Canada

ABoVE: Burn Severity, Fire Progression, Landcover and Field Data, NWT, Canada, 2014
biosphere NASA ORNL_CLOUD Level 3 multiple
In plain English

What it measures. How a 2014 wildfire season burned across Canada's Northwest Territories: maps of peatland types (bog, fen, marsh, swamp), how the fire spread day by day, and field notes on burn severity, regrowth, soil moisture, and tree sizes.

How it's made. Combines satellite maps (from the Terra and Aqua satellites) with on-the-ground surveys done in 2015 after the fires.

How & where you'd use it. Helps researchers understand how fast wildfires spread, how severely peatlands burn, and how the land recovers afterward.

What's measured

BIOSPHERE › VEGETATION › DOMINANT SPECIESLAND SURFACE › SOILS › SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENTBIOSPHERE › ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS › FIRE ECOLOGY › FIRE OCCURRENCEBIOSPHERE › VEGETATION › BIOMASSLAND SURFACE › LAND USE/LAND COVER › LAND USE/LAND COVER CLASSIFICATIONBIOSPHERE › VEGETATION › PLANT CHARACTERISTICSLAND SURFACE › SOILS › SOIL TEMPERATUREBIOSPHERE › VEGETATION › VEGETATION COVER

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span1997-07-07 → 2015-07-15
  • Measured byTerra (MODIS) · FIELD SURVEYS (SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE) · Aqua (MODIS)
  • Processing levelLevel 3
  • Spatial extent-121.604, 60.3334, -110.677, 64.2509
  • Formatsmultiple
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Map vegetation, forests and biomass
  • Monitor ecosystem productivity and carbon
  • Support habitat and biodiversity studies
Official description

This data set provides peatland landcover classification maps, fire progression maps, and vegetation community biophysical data collected from areas that were burned by wildfire in 2014 in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The peatland maps include peatland type (bog, fen, marsh, swamp) and level of biomass (open, forested). The fire progression maps enabled an assessment of wildfire progression rates at a daily time scale. Field data, collected in 2015, include an estimate of burn severity, woody seedling/sprouting data, soil moisture, and tree diameter and height of burned sites and similar vegetation characterization at landcover validation sites.

Get the data

wildfires_2014_nwt_canada_1307_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="Wildfires_2014_NWT_Canada_1307",
    version="1",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from ORNL_CLOUD
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.