Satellite data reveal differential responses of Swiss forests to unprecedented 2018 drought

The summer drought of 2018 caused major damages to forest ecosystems. In
this dataset, various environmental variables (precipitation anomaly,
temperature anomaly, climatic water balance anomaly, elevation, slope,
aspect, exposition, potential direct incedent radiation, distance to the
forest edge, tree type, and species heterogeneity) have been stratified
into ten sections and the proportion of forest pixels with severe changes
(equal or more than 10% either positive or negative) in the normalized
difference water index (NDWI) of the forest canopy from 2017-2018,
2018-2019, and 2017-2019 in Switzerland declared.