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  • SBC LTER: Time series of kelp biomass in the canopy from Landsat 5, 1984 -2011
  • Santa Barbara Coastal LTER
    Cavanaugh, Kyle C
    Siegel, David A
    Reed, Daniel C
    Bell, Tom W
  • 2014-01-14
  • Santa Barbara Coastal LTER, K.C. Cavanaugh, D.A. Siegel, D.C. Reed, and T.W. Bell. 2014. SBC LTER: Time series of kelp biomass in the canopy from Landsat 5, 1984 -2011 ver 6. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/DOI_PLACE_HOLDER (Accessed 2024-11-21).

  • These data are a time series of canopy biomass of the giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, derived from LANDSAT 5 Thematic Mapper satellite imagery. The kelp canopy is composed of the portions of fronds floating on the surface of the water. Biomass data (wet weight, kg) are given for individual 30 x 30 meter pixels in the coastal areas extending from near Pt. Reyes, California, to Punta Abreojos, Baja California Sur, Mexico, including the Northern and Southern Channel Islands.

    Data were derived from Landsat 5 TM images. Observations are made on a 16 day reqeat cycle but the temporal coverage is irregular because of cloud cover and instrument failure. Estimates of kelp canopy biomass are derived from the relationship between satellite surface reflectance and empirical measurements of kelp canopy biomass in long-term SBC LTER study plots obtained using SCUBA.

    Data are organized into yearly files, and zipped to compress. In its entirety this dataset is large, more than 3 GB and 80 million lines. To receive an archive of all data, or for assistance with subsets (e.g., range of dates or a latitude/longitude) contact sbclter@msi.ucsb.edu.

  • N: 37.94752509      S: 27.013839      E: -114.04476      W: -122.7832345
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  • The user of SBC LTER data agrees to contact the data owner (i.e., the SBC investigator responsible for data) prior to publishing. Where appropriate, users whose projects are integrally dependent on SBC LTER data are encouraged to consider collaboration and/or co-authorship with the data owner. The user agrees to cite SBC LTER in all publications that use SBC LTER data by including the following statement in the Acknowledgments: "Data were provided by the Santa Barbara Coastal LTER, funded by the US National Science Foundation (OCE-1232779)". The user agrees to send the full citation of any publication using SBC LTER data to sbclter@msi.ucsb.edu Users are prohibited from selling or redistributing any data provided by SBC LTER. Extensive efforts are made to ensure that online data are accurate and up to date, but SBC LTER will not take responsibility for any errors that may exist. The user agrees also to adhere to the Data Use Agreement of the Long Term Ecological Research Network. Any violation of the terms of this agreement will result in immediate forfeiture of the data and loss of access privileges to other SBC LTER data sets. SBC LTER is committed to protecting the privacy and accuracy of your confidential information. See our Privacy Policy for more information.
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