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Earth Lab Disturbance Stack derived from Landfire

The CU Boulder Earth Lab has integrated annual disturbance presence data from Landfire with a new index of hotter drought into an easily managed raster data stack.

To accelerate your access to this dataset, the ESIIL team has made disturbance stack data for the Southern Rockies available on the Cyverse data store at the below directory:

~/data-store/data/iplant/home/shared/earthlab/forest_carbon_codefest/disturbance

The stack data is in two versions, full and simplified.

The full version (dist_stack_Southern_Rockies.tif) has the below values:

Code Landfire disturbance status Hotter-drought status
0 none no hotter-drought/fewer than 4 thresholds exceeded
1 fire no hotter-drought/fewer than 4 thresholds exceeded
2 insect/disease no hotter-drought/fewer than 4 thresholds exceeded
3 other Landfire disturbance no hotter-drought/fewer than 4 thresholds exceeded
4 none hotter-drought with 4 thresholds exceeded
5 fire hotter-drought with 4 thresholds exceeded
6 insects/disease hotter-drought with 4 thresholds exceeded
7 other Landfire disturbance hotter-drought with 4 thresholds exceeded
8 none hotter-drought with 5 thresholds exceeded
9 fire hotter-drought with 5 thresholds exceeded
10 insects/disease hotter-drought with 5 thresholds exceeded
11 other Landfire disturbance hotter-drought with 5 thresholds exceeded
12 none hotter-drought with 6 thresholds exceeded
13 fire hotter-drought with 6 thresholds exceeded
14 insects/disease hotter-drought with 6 thresholds exceeded
15 other Landfire disturbance hotter-drought with 6 thresholds exceeded

The simplified version (simple_dist_stack_Southern_Rockies.tif) has the below values, and only includes the most extreme hot drought:

Code Landfire disturbance status Hotter-drought status
0 none no hotter-drought/fewer than 6 thresholds exceeded
1 fire no hotter-drought/fewer than 6 thresholds exceeded
2 insect/disease no hotter-drought/fewer than 6 thresholds exceeded
3 none hotter-drought with 6 thresholds exceeded
4 fire hotter-drought with 6 thresholds exceeded
5 insect/disease hhotter-drought with 6 thresholds exceeded

Additional MODIS data is best accessed via VSI or STAC.


Last update: 2024-05-09