ABoVE: Landsat-derived Annual Aboveground Biomass Density and Uncertainty, 1984-2022

This dataset provides annual aboveground biomass (AGB) maps and associated uncertainty maps for Alaska and Canada from 1984 to 2022 at ~30 m resolution (0.00027 degrees). The dataset was derived using predictors from synthetic spectral features from Landsat Collection 2 and Continuous Change Detection and Classification algorithm. Extensive collections of ground plots (n = 45,002) and airborne lidar data (n = 421,942) were compiled for reference AGB in order to calibrate AGB models using Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) per ecoregion. Fifty AGB predictions were derived, of which the mean and standard deviation was used as per-pixel AGB prediction and uncertainty, respectively. The dataset can promote better understanding of carbon dynamics across arctic and boreal regions of North America. The data are provided in cloud optimized GeoTIFF format.