Harmonized Landsat/Sentinel-2 & SAR Sentinel-1 dataset labeled with UAV-LiDAR-derived forest structural attributes in Alaska and Northwest Canada

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This dataset presents Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 and SAR Sentinel-1 tiles labeled with forest structural information at 86 sites (minimum 50 m by 500 m) in the boreal forests of Alaska and Northwest Canada. UAV-LiDAR data was collected at each site between 2022 and 2024. Canopy height and crown coverage were derived from the point clouds. The HLS pixels were collected as time series for two seasons: peak summer (June 20th to August 10th 2022, 2023, 2024) with 648 tiles, and late summer (August 20th to September 30th, 2022, 2023, 2024) with 258 tiles. We applied a 30 % cloud cover filter and masked remaining clouds, water bodies, and snow with the HLS Fmask bit filters. We computed and added one NDVI band per season. The Sentinel-1 data (VV, VH, angle) were collected for the same seasons (peak and late summer) and pre-processed following Mullissa et al. 2021 (https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13101954 ; https://github.com/adugnag/gee_s1_ard) in python and Google Earth Engine). The median pixel value of HLS and S-1 was taken from the median composites at each site. We resampled the crown coverage and median canopy height with the HLS grid resolution (30 m) and stacked the rasters together.

There is one raster per site, containing 25 bands (see read_me file):Band 1 = HLS PS BlueBand 2 = HLS PS GreenBand 3 = HLS PS RedBand 4 = HLS PS NIRBand 5 = HLS PS SWIR 1Band 6 = HLS PS SWIR 2Band 7 = HLS PS NDVIBand 8 = HLS LS BlueBand 9 = HLS LS GreenBand 10 = HLS LS RedBand 11 = HLS LS NIRBand 12 = HLS LS SWIR 1Band 13 = HLS LS SWIR 2Band 14 = HLS LS NDVIBand 15 = Median Canopy Height (meters) (from our raster data)Band 16 = SD canopy heightBand 17 = Minimum Canopy Height value (meters)Band 18 = Maximum Canopy Height value (meters)Band 19 = Crown cover percentage (%)Band 20 = Sentinel-1 PS VH Band 21 = Sentinel-1 PS VVBand 22 = Sentinel-1 PS angleBand 23 = Sentinel-1 LS VH Band 24 = Sentinel-1 LS VVBand 25 = Sentinel-1 LS angle

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.988134
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13101954
Related Identifier IsDerivedFrom https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.983738
Related Identifier IsDerivedFrom https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.980757
Related Identifier IsDerivedFrom https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.980485
Related Identifier IsDerivedFrom https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.977771
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.988134
Provenance
Creator Enguehard, Léa ORCID logo; Kruse, Stefan ORCID logo; Farkas, Luca; Heim, Birgit ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference European Research Council https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000781 Crossref Funder ID 772852 doi:10.3030/772852 Glacial Legacy on the establishment of evergreen vs. summergreen boreal forests; Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy https://doi.org/10.13039/501100006360 Crossref Funder ID AI-vergreens AI-supported remote sensing of summergreen and evergreen needleleaf forest types in cold forest biomes; Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004581 Crossref Funder ID F221-08-AWI/001/002
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 255 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-121.834W, 58.751S, 149.434E, 68.729N); Yukon, Canada; Northwest Territories, Canada; British Columbia, Canada; Alaska Interior, USA; Southcentral Alaska, USA
Temporal Coverage Begin 2022-07-22T20:03:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2024-07-09T18:37:00Z