Description
The Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) field campaign funded by NASA’s Terrestrial Ecology Program began in 2015. Its science objectives are to 1) improve understanding of Arctic and boreal ecosystem response to environmental change, and 2) provide data for informed decision-making to guide societal responses. Disturbance from wildfire is one of ABoVE’s six science themes. The research campaign (expected to continue until at least 2023) has already conducted many field studies related to wildfire as well as testing new air–and space-borne sensors for fire detection/monitoring/effects and deriving information on fuels, permafrost, and snow/ice cover.