The BOREAS Follow-On FLX-01 team collected tower flux, surface meteorological, and soil temperature data at the BOREAS NSA-OBS site continuously from March 1994 through December 1998. Data from March 1994 through October 1996 are included in the BOREAS TF-03 effort while data from the end of October 1996 through December 1998 are included in the BOREAS Follow-on FLX-01 effort.

The BOREAS Follow-On FLX-01 team derived NEE, GEE, and Respiration using measured tower C02 flux measurements taken at the NSA-OBS site. The data provided contain half-hourly measurements as well as 4 and 5 day binned data sets. The derived data covers the period from March 1994 through the end of 1998.

These images were produced by aggregating 1' gridded data layers derived from the polygon-based Peatlands of Canada Database (Tarnocai et al., 2000) to 10' (horizontal) by 5' (vertical) and to 0.5 degree by 0.5 degree (or 30' by 30') pixel sizes in straight latitude/longitude grids.

These images were produced by averaging the 1-km FASIR-NDVI maps by Jing Chen to a 10' (horizontal) by 5' (vertical) pixel size in a straight latitude/longitude grid. Each pixel represents the average NDVI of the 1-km pixels that fall in each 10' by 5' pixel, where more than 50% of the 1-km pixels in the 10' by 5' area are not cloud and are not missing. If more than 50% of the 1-km pixels are missing or cloudy, a value of 0 is assigned to the 10' by 5' pixel.

Existing TM and AVHRR based landcover maps, AVHRR-FPAR maps, AVHRR-LAI maps, moss cover maps, and a new peatland distribution map were regridded to scales of 2 km, 10 by 5 minute, and half-degree grids for use by the BOREAS Follow-On Carbon and Hydro-Meteorological modeling groups.

This data set contains a pair of raster images and a spreadsheet chronicling the most recent fire history of Saskatchewan from 1945 to 1996. This data set was developed from a series of ARC/INFO export files of annual fire data compiled and provided by the Saskatchewan Environment and Resource Management (SERM) Wildlife Branch.

This data set contains maps of surface reflectance and vegetation parameters derived from imagery collected by the POLDER instrument over BOREAS conifer tower sites in the Southern Study Area (SSA) during 1994. The POLDER imagery provided in this data set was collected on June 1 and July 21, 1994, from the NASA C-130 aircraft platform.

The LAI and canopy closure images over the BOREAS conifer flux tower sites were produced at a spatial resolution of 30 m using the Forest-Light Interaction Model. The data used were obtained by the CASI instrument in high spatial resolution mode in the winter of 1994. Additional high resolution LAI and canopy closure images were produced over the two black spruce flux tower sites using the FLIM-CLUS algorithm.

The BOREAS DSP-5 team generated a NPP image over the BOREAS region from a process-based ecosystem model, the Boreal Ecosystem Productivity Simulator (BEPS). The NPP image was created from a series of composited AVHRR images from April 11 - September 10, 1994. This document describes how the NPP is generated . The NPP data are stored in a binary image file.

The level-0 Daedalus TMS imagery, along with the other remotely sensed images, was collected to provide spatially extensive information about radiant energy over the primary BOREAS study areas. This information includes detailed land cover and biophysical parameter maps such as fPAR and LAI.