Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femc705 Spear StreetSouth BurlingtonVermont05403United States of AmericaNortheastern States Research Cooperative United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and AgricultureUnited States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service State & Private ForestryfunderVermont Forest Parks and Recreation partnerMapping forest species mixes across the Northeast from Landsat imageryThis project utilized historical Landsat imagery, field-based data and novel remote sensing analytical techniques to map the percent basal area of select species across the northern forest region (northern New York, northern Vermont, northern New Hampshire, Maine) of the northeastern USA and generated improved forest type maps and forest/non-forest classifications. An update in 2020 extended this mapping to southern Vermont and surrounding portions of New York, New Hampshire and MassachusettsMapping forest species mixes across the Northeast from Landsat imageryPontiusJenniferGudex-CrossDavidAdamsAlisonspecies compositionlandsatremote sensingforest classificationNortheastern Forest Percent Basal Area Rasters by Species1985-01-012015-12-31This dataset contains a set of rasters of percent basal area by species (balsam fir, red maple, sugar maple, birch spp., American beech, red spruce, eastern white pine, cottonwood, red oak, and eastern hemlock) for the northern forest region of Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont from 1985 to 2015.20190410172150_FinalComposites.zipVMC.1344.2742mySQLGudex-Cross D., J. Pontius, A. Adams (2019) Northeastern Forest Species Composite by Percent Basal Area. FEMC. Available online at: /femc/data/archive/project/northeast-forest-species-mapping-from-landsat/dataset/species-composite-by-percent-basal-area/femc/data/archive/project/northeast-forest-species-mapping-from-landsat/dataset/species-composite-by-percent-basal-areaabba_perba_1985Balsam Fir Percent Basal Area 1985decimalD-M-YY-1abba_perba_2000Balsam Fir Percent Basal Area 2000decimalD-M-YY-1abba_perba_2015Balsam Fir Percent Basal Area 2015decimalD-M-YY-1acru_perba_1985Red Maple Percent Basal Area 1985decimalD-M-YY-1acru_perba_2000Red Maple Percent Basal Area 2000decimalD-M-YY-1acru_perba_2015Red Maple Percent Basal Area 2015decimalD-M-YY-1acsa_perba_1985Sugar Maple Percent Basal Area 1985decimalD-M-YY-1acsa_perba_2000Sugar Maple Percent Basal Area 2000decimalD-M-YY-1acsa_perba_2015Sugar Maple Percent Basal Area 2015decimalD-M-YY-1betu_perba_1985Birch spp. Percent Basal Area 1985decimalD-M-YY-1betu_perba_2000Birch spp. Percent Basal Area 2000decimalD-M-YY-1betu_perba_2015Birch spp. Percent Basal Area 2015decimalD-M-YY-1fagr_perba_1985American Beech Percent Basal Area 1985decimalD-M-YY-1fagr_perba_2000American Beech Percent Basal Area 2000decimalD-M-YY-1fagr_perba_2015American Beech Percent Basal Area 2015decimalD-M-YY-1piru_perba_1985Red Spruce Percent Basal Area 1985decimalD-M-YY-1piru_perba_2000Red Spruce Percent Basal Area 2000decimalD-M-YY-1piru_perba_2015Red Spruce Percent Basal Area 2015decimalD-M-YY-1pist_perba_2015Eastern White Pine Percent Basal Area 2015decimalD-M-YY-1pist_perba_2000Eastern White Pine Percent Basal Area 2000decimalD-M-YY-1pist_perba_1985Eastern White Pine Percent Basal Area 1985decimalD-M-YY-1popu_perba_1985Cottonwood/Popular spp. Percent Basal Area 1985decimalD-M-YY-1popu_perba_2000Cottonwood/Popular spp. Percent Basal Area 2000decimalD-M-YY-1popu_perba_2015Cottonwood/Popular spp. Percent Basal Area 2015decimalD-M-YY-1quer_perba_2015Oak spp. Percent Basal Area 2015decimalD-M-YY-1quer_perba_2000Oak spp. Percent Basal Area 2000decimalD-M-YY-1quer_perba_1985Oak spp. Percent Basal Area 1985decimalD-M-YY-1tsca_perba_1985Eastern Hemlock Percent Basal Area 1985decimalD-M-YY-1tsca_perba_2000Eastern Hemlock Percent Basal Area 2000decimalD-M-YY-1tsca_perba_2015Eastern Hemlock Percent Basal Area 2015decimalD-M-YY-1