UAV LiDAR-based classified trees and species abundance in the boreal forests of Alaska and Northwest Canada

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This dataset presents information about 48 sites in the boreal forests of Alaska and Northwest Canada. At each site, we established a UAV transect and collected LiDAR and RGB data with a Yellowscan Mapper mounted on a DJI M300. The data was collected in the summers of 2022 in Canada and 2023 and 2024 in Alaska. Each LiDAR transect was processed into a colored pointcloud, and individual trees were segmented. We computed tree characteristics: tree height, crown area, crown diameter, and estimated age (based on tree core data and a regression model). Using a random forest algorithm, we classified the individual trees into 2 categories: evergreen (Spruce, Pine, etc.) and deciduous (Betula, Aspen, etc.). The pointcloud were aggregated into 20 x 20 meters tree patches. We computed the abundance of evergreen and decidous categories in each patch per height category (below 5 meters, between 5 and 12, above 12 meters). This data is presented as individual table per site. This dataset supports the findings of Enguehard et al., 2025.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.977817
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.977817
Provenance
Creator Enguehard, Léa ORCID logo; Heim, Birgit ORCID logo; Falco, Nicola; Juday, Glenn; Santosh, Panda; Herzschuh, Ulrike ORCID logo; Kruse, Stefan 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 336 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-163.664W, 59.970S, -127.507E, 68.729N); Yukon, Canada; Northwest Territories, Canada; British Columbia, Canada
Temporal Coverage Begin 2022-07-15T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2024-07-06T00:00:00Z