Forest harvest dataset for northern Colorado Rocky Mountains (1984-2015) generated from a Landsat time series and existing forest harvest records

Brian Woodward; Peder Engelstad; Anthony Vorster; Christopher Beddow; Stephanie Krail; Amandeep Vashisht; Paul Evangelista

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2017.10.030

Forest harvest dataset for northern Colorado Rocky Mountains (1984-2015) generated from a Landsat time series and existing forest harvest records

Data Brief. 2017 Oct 19:15:724-727. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.10.030. eCollection 2017 Dec.

Authors

Brian Woodward^{1

2}, Peder Engelstad^{1

2}, Anthony Vorster¹, Christopher Beddow², Stephanie Krail², Amandeep Vashisht², Paul Evangelista^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
² NASA DEVELOP Fort Collins Center, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.

Abstract

This dataset provides a shapefile containing approximately 3500 polygons with the location, extent, size, and year of clearcut harvest events occurring between 1984 and 2015 in forested areas of the northern Colorado, Landsat WRS-2 scene Path 034, Row 032. Harvest events were modeled and mapped using a 32 year time series of Landsat imagery, the LandTrendr algorithm, and ancillary datasets. The dataset also conveys information on the elevation, aspect, ownership, distance to roads, and the watershed where each harvest event occurred.

Keywords: Forestry; Harvests; LandTrendr; Landsat.