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BOREAS AFM-12 1-km AVHRR Seasonal Land Cover ClassificationThe Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) Airborne Fluxes and Meteorology (AFM)-12 team's efforts focused on regional scale Surface Vegetation and Atmosphere (SVAT) modeling to improve parameterization of the heterogeneous BOREAS landscape for use in larger scale Global Circulation Models (GCMs). This regional land cover data set was developed as part of a multitemporal one-kilometer Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) land cover analysis approach that was used as the basis for regional land cover mapping, fire disturbance-regeneration, and multiresolution land cover scaling studies in the boreal forest ecosystem of central Canada. This land cover classification was derived by using regional field observations from ground and low-level aircraft transits to analyze spectral-temporal clusters that were derived from an unsupervised cluster analysis of monthly Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) image composites (April-September 1992). This regional data set was developed for use by BOREAS investigators, especially those involved in simulation modeling, remote sensing algorithm development, and aircraft flux studies. Based on regional field data verification, this multitemporal one-kilometer AVHRR land cover mapping approach was effective in characterizing the biome-level land cover structure, embedded spatially heterogeneous landscape patterns, and other types of key land cover information of interest to BOREAS modelers.The land cover mosaics in this classification include: (1) wet conifer mosaic (low, medium, and high tree stand density), (2) mixed coniferous-deciduous forest (80% coniferous, codominant, and 80% deciduous), (3) recent visible bum, vegetation regeneration, or rock outcrops-bare ground-sparsely vegetated slow regeneration bum (four classes), (4) open water and grassland marshes, and (5) general agricultural land use/ grasslands (three classes). This land cover mapping approach did not detect small subpixel-scale landscape features such as fens, bogs, and small water bodies. Field observations and comparisons with Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) suggest a minimum effective resolution of these land cover classes in the range of three to four kilometers, in part, because of the daily to monthly compositing process. In general, potential accuracy limitations are mitigated by the use of conservative parameterization rules such as aggregation of predominant land cover classes within minimum horizontal grid cell sizes of ten kilometers. The AFM-12 one-kilometer AVHRR seasonal land cover classification data are available from the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). The data files are available on a CD-ROM (see document number 20010000884).
Document ID
20000116620
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Steyaert, Lou (EROS Data Center Sioux Falls, SD United States)
Hall, Forrest G. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Newcomer, Jeffrey A. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Knapp, David E. (Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services Greenbelt, MD United States)
Loveland, Thomas R. (EROS Data Center Sioux Falls, SD United States)
Smith, David E.
Date Acquired
September 7, 2013
Publication Date
June 1, 2000
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Report/Patent Number
NASA/TM-2000-209891/VOL17
NAS 1.15:209891/VOL17
Rept-2000-03136-0/VOL17
Report Number: NASA/TM-2000-209891/VOL17
Report Number: NAS 1.15:209891/VOL17
Report Number: Rept-2000-03136-0/VOL17
Funding Number(s)
PROJECT: RTOP 923-462-33-01
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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