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   <dataset><title>Northeastern Forest Percent Basal Area Rasters by Species</title><creator><organizationName>Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative</organizationName><address><deliveryPoint>705 Spear Street</deliveryPoint><city>South Burlington</city><administrativeArea>Vermont</administrativeArea><postalCode>05403</postalCode><country>United States of America</country></address><phone>(802) 656-0683</phone><electronicMailAddress>femc@uvm.edu</electronicMailAddress><onlineUrl>www.uvm.edu/femc</onlineUrl></creator><associatedParty><organizationName>Northeastern States Research Cooperative </organizationName><organizationName>United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture</organizationName><organizationName>United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service State &amp; Private Forestry</organizationName><role>funder</role></associatedParty><associatedParty><organizationName>Vermont Forest Parks and Recreation </organizationName><role>partner</role></associatedParty><abstract><para>This dataset contains a set of rasters of percent basal area by species (balsam fir, red maple, sugar maple, birch spp., American beech, red spruce, eastern white pine, cottonwood, red oak, and eastern hemlock) for the northern forest region of Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont from 1985 to 2015.</para></abstract><keywordSet><keyword/></keywordSet><contact><organizationName>Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative</organizationName></contact><project><title>Mapping forest species mixes across the Northeast from Landsat imagery</title><personnel><individualName><givenName>Jennifer</givenName><surName>Pontius</surName></individualName><role>principalInvestigator</role></personnel><personnel><individualName><givenName>David</givenName><surName>Gudex-Cross</surName></individualName><role>contentProvider</role></personnel><personnel><individualName><givenName>Alison</givenName><surName>Adams</surName></individualName><role>contentProvider</role></personnel><abstract><para/><para>This project utilized historical Landsat imagery, field-based data and novel remote sensing analytical techniques to map the percent basal area of select species across the northern forest region (northern New York, northern Vermont, northern New Hampshire, Maine) of the northeastern USA and generated improved forest type maps and forest/non-forest classifications. An update in 2020 extended this mapping to southern Vermont and surrounding portions of New York, New Hampshire and Massachusetts</para></abstract><studyAreaDescription/></project><dataTable><entityName>Northeastern Forest Percent Basal Area Rasters by Species</entityName><entityDescription>This dataset contains a set of rasters of percent basal area by species (balsam fir, red maple, sugar maple, birch spp., American beech, red spruce, eastern white pine, cottonwood, red oak, and eastern hemlock) for the northern forest region of Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont from 1985 to 2015.</entityDescription><physical><objectName>VMC.1344.2742</objectName><dataFormat><externallyDefinedFormat><formatName>mySQL</formatName></externallyDefinedFormat></dataFormat><distribution><online><url>https://www.uvm.edu/femc/CI4/data/archive/project/northeast-forest-species-mapping-from-landsat/dataset/species-composite-by-percent-basal-area</url></online></distribution></physical><coverage 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