Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 tiles labeled with UAV-LiDAR-derived forest structural attributes in Alaska and Northwest Canada

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This dataset presents Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) tiles labeled with forest structural information at ~90 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 median pixel value 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.

The dataset contains: • HLS and forest structure as Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG)It contains all the HLS peak summer and late summer bands, and UAV-lidar derived information. One file per site, and the associated read_me file with more details.• PolygonsPolygons shapefiles of each site and extent• Pixel tableOne table containing all band information from all pixels in the dataset, Principal components 1 to 3, and Tasseled Cap values, and the associated read_me file with more details.This dataset supports the findings of Enguehard et al., (in preparation), and can be used as training and validation data for canopy height or crown coverage prediction models in the boreal forest.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.983738
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.980757
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.980485
Related Identifier References 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.983738
Provenance
Creator Enguehard, Léa ORCID logo; Kruse, Stefan ORCID logo; Farkas, Luca; Gloy, Josias; 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
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 438 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 2022-07-15T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2024-07-09T00:00:00Z