Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment

The Campaign

The Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) is a NASA-led project that seeks to better understand the vulnerability and resilience of Arctic and boreal ecosystems to environmental changes. ABoVE started in 2017 and has completed 6 deployments during the boreal summer and fall across Alaska and northwestern Canada. Several aircraft have been deployment with remote sensors such as the Airborne Visible InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer - Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG), Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), and Land Vegetation and Ice Sensor (LVIS) to map vegetation across the ABoVE study domain. Complementary ground-based measurements from carbon flux towers were also collected. ABoVE is funded through NASA’s Terrestrial Ecology Program.

Additional Notes

ABoVE deployment in 2017 is sometimes referred to as the "ABoVE Airborne Campaign (ACC)" with following years supplementing the data collected in 2017. Multiple shapefile formats are available at: https://above.nasa.gov/about.html for the study region boundary

Repositories

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC (ORNL)