This dataset contains vegetation plot locations, descriptions, fractional cover, and sample identifier information from surveys conducted as part of the 2022 NASA Surface Biology Geology (SBG) High Frequency Time series (SHIFT) campaign. Surveys took place from 2022-02-23 to 2022-09-27 at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve, Sedgwick Reserve, and Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, which are located in Santa Barbara County, California, USA. This project collected field data contemporaneously with weekly flights of the NASA Airborne Visible-Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) facility instrument over the study areas. Plot information includes: plot tree subform, species lists, plot description, plot samples characterization, and plot location and contextual information. Related data packages contain additional biogeochemical, reflectance, and foliar data. Survey data and metadata are presented in comma-separated values (*.csv) format along with survey plot polygons in GeoJSON (*.geojson) format.

This dataset contains photographs of the plots where field vegetation sampling was conducted during the 2022 NASA Surface Biology Geology (SBG) High Frequency Time series (SHIFT) campaign. Sampling occurred at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve, Sedgwick Reserve, and Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, which are located in Santa Barbara County, California, USA. Photographs were taken from 2022-02-23 to 2022-09-18. This project collected field data contemporaneously with weekly flights of Airborne Visible-Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) over the study areas. Related SHIFT data packages contain additional biogeochemical, reflectance, and foliar data.

This dataset provides leaf images and measurements of leaf traits (area, wet weight, dry weight, leaf mass per area, leaf water content) and leaf pigments (chlorophyll) and species information as sampled from meadow, shrub, and tree from Santa Barbara California, USA. Samples were collected from plots within the Dangermond Preserve, Sedgwick Reserve, and Carpinteria Salt March Reserve during the period of February 23, 2022 to September 27, 2022 for the 2022 NASA Surface Biology Geology (SBG) High Frequency Time series (SHIFT) campaign. The associated data package contains image scans used for the leaf area calculations as well as python processing code used to calculate the area. A comma-separated value (CSV) formatted file includes plot-level leaf area (cm2), wet weight (g), leaf mass area (LMA, g leaf dry mass per meter square), leaf water content (LWC, (wet weight - dry weight/wet weight, %)), chlorophyll fluorescence ratio (CFR), and chlorophyll content (CHL).

This dataset contains photographs of the plots where field vegetation sampling was conducted during the 2022 NASA Surface Biology Geology (SBG) High Frequency Time series (SHIFT) campaign. Sampling occurred at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve, Sedgwick Reserve, and Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, which are located in Santa Barbara County, California, USA. Photographs were taken from 2022-02-23 to 2022-09-18. This project collected field data contemporaneously with weekly flights of Airborne Visible-Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) over the study areas. Related SHIFT data packages contain additional biogeochemical, reflectance, and foliar data.

This dataset provides the results of the characterization of shrubland vegetation at two study areas in southern Idaho, USA: the Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed (RCEW) and Hollister. Data were collected in September and October 2014. In each study area, several 10-m x 10-m plots were randomly established that are representative of the local dominant vegetation types. Measurements are reported for both plot and individual shrub attributes. Plot measurements include shrub density and biometric data, percent shrub cover derived from line intercept transects, percent plant species and bare ground cover derived from photo analysis, and average LAI. Measurements for selected individual shrubs include height, width, length, number of stems, and LAI. Leaf samples were collected for determining LAI, specific leaf area (SLA), carbon and nitrogen concentrations, and isotopic nitrogen and carbon.

We apply a research approach that can inform riparian restoration planning by developing products that show recent trends in vegetation conditions identifying areas potentially more at risk for degradation and the associated relationship between riparian vegetation dynamics and climate conditions. The full suite of data products and a link to the associated publication addressing this analysis can be found on the Parent data release. For this study, the vegetation conditions are characterized using a series of remote sensing vegetation indices developing using satellite imagery, including the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and the Tasseled Cap (TC) Transformation. The NDVI is a commonly used vegetation index that quantifies relative greenness of the vegetation based on the plant’s photosynthetic activity, measured as a ratio between the Near Infrared (NIR) and Red bands (Tucker, 1979). The NDVI equation follows: NDVI = (NIR band - Red band) / (NIR band + Red band). NDVI has a range of -1 to 1, though green vegetation theoretically ranges from 0 to 1. Dense green vegetation is represented with values closer to 1 while barren soil, rock, and less-dense surface vegetation has values closer to 0. Values below 0 often represent water due to its unique reflective characteristics. The TC transformation is an approached used to transform satellite imagery into a collection of spectral metrics that can quantify various aspects of the vegetation and soil surfaces (Kauth and Thomas, 1976). Specifically, the TC transformation develops 6 separate metrics, though we only assess the three primary metrics: (i) brightness (transformation 1), (ii) greenness (transformation 2), and (iii) wetness (transformation 3). The TC transformation metrics are calculated using a series of coefficients multiplied across reflectance values for the suite of Landsat bands, then summed across each metric. No specific range is identified for the TC transformation metrics, though for both brightness and greenness, positive values represent brighter and greener conditions, respectively, while negative values represent wetter conditions for wetness. Because bandwidths differ slightly between Landsat 4, 5, 7 and Landsat 8, we use two sets of coefficients and complete the calculation separately before combining the collections into a single series of images (DeVries et al., 2016; Zhai et al., 2022). All raster products were developed using the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud computing software program for the Upper Gila River watershed. This is a Child Item for the Parent data release, Mapping Riparian Vegetation Response to Climate Change on the San Carlos Apache Reservation and Upper Gila River Watershed to Inform Restoration Priorities: 1935 to Present - Database of Trends in Vegetation Properties and Climate Adaptation Variables. This Child Item consists of a two multi-band raster stacks. The raster stacks are identified by the vegetation index they represent (i.e., NDVI, TC greenness). Each band within the separate raster stacks represents a month from January 2014 through December 2020 (i.e., band 1 is January 2014 and band 84 is December 2020). Though the full study extends until December 2021, we chose to remove data from 2021 from the phenological analysis due to increased fire activity during 2021. Additionally, we chose not to include the TC transformation metrics of brightness and wetness to focus on metrics to simply measure vegetation greenness.

We apply a research approach that can inform riparian restoration planning by developing products that show recent trends in vegetation conditions identifying areas potentially more at risk for degradation and the associated relationship between riparian vegetation dynamics and climate conditions. The full suite of data products and a link to the associated publication addressing this analysis can be found on the Parent data release. For this study, the vegetation conditions are characterized using a series of remote sensing vegetation indices developing using satellite imagery, including the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and the Tasseled Cap (TC) Transformation. The NDVI is a commonly used vegetation index that quantifies relative greenness of the vegetation based on the plant’s photosynthetic activity, measured as a ratio between the Near Infrared (NIR) and Red bands (Tucker, 1979). The NDVI equation follows: NDVI = (NIR band - Red band) / (NIR band + Red band). NDVI has a range of -1 to 1, though green vegetation theoretically ranges from 0 to 1. Dense green vegetation is represented with values closer to 1 while barren soil, rock, and less-dense surface vegetation has values closer to 0. Values below 0 often represent water due to its unique reflective characteristics. The TC transformation is an approached used to transform satellite imagery into a collection of spectral metrics that can quantify various aspects of the vegetation and soil surfaces (Kauth and Thomas, 1976). Specifically, the TC transformation develops 6 separate metrics, though we only assess the three primary metrics: (i) brightness (transformation 1), (ii) greenness (transformation 2), and (iii) wetness (transformation 3). The TC transformation metrics are calculated using a series of coefficients multiplied across reflectance values for the suite of Landsat bands, then summed across each metric. No specific range is identified for the TC transformation metrics, though for both brightness and greenness, positive values represent brighter and greener conditions, respectively, while negative values represent wetter conditions for wetness. Because bandwidths differ slightly between Landsat 4, 5, 7 and Landsat 8, we use two sets of coefficients and complete the calculation separately before combining the collections into a single series of images (DeVries et al., 2016; Zhai et al., 2022). All raster products were developed using the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud computing software program for the Upper Gila River watershed. This is a Child Item for the Parent data release, Mapping Riparian Vegetation Response to Climate Change on the San Carlos Apache Reservation and Upper Gila River Watershed to Inform Restoration Priorities: 1935 to Present - Database of Trends in Vegetation Properties and Climate Adaptation Variables. This Child Item consists of a two multi-band raster stacks. The raster stacks are identified by the vegetation index they represent (i.e., NDVI, TC greenness). Each band within the separate raster stacks represents a month from January 2014 through December 2020 (i.e., band 1 is January 2014 and band 84 is December 2020). Though the full study extends until December 2021, we chose to remove data from 2021 from the phenological analysis due to increased fire activity during 2021. Additionally, we chose not to include the TC transformation metrics of brightness and wetness to focus on metrics to simply measure vegetation greenness.

This dataset provides leaf images and measurements of leaf traits (area, wet weight, dry weight, leaf mass per area, leaf water content) and leaf pigments (chlorophyll) and species information as sampled from meadow, shrub, and tree from Santa Barbara California, USA. Samples were collected from plots within the Dangermond Preserve, Sedgwick Reserve, and Carpinteria Salt March Reserve during the period of February 23, 2022 to September 27, 2022 for the 2022 NASA Surface Biology Geology (SBG) High Frequency Time series (SHIFT) campaign. The associated data package contains image scans used for the leaf area calculations as well as python processing code used to calculate the area. A comma-separated value (CSV) formatted file includes plot-level leaf area (cm2), wet weight (g), leaf mass area (LMA, g leaf dry mass per meter square), leaf water content (LWC, (wet weight - dry weight/wet weight, %)), chlorophyll fluorescence ratio (CFR), and chlorophyll content (CHL).

This data set provides a time series of vegetation phenological observations for 393 sites across diverse ecosystems of the world (mostly North America) from 2000-2018. The phenology data were derived from conventional visible-wavelength automated digital camera imagery collected through the PhenoCam Network at each site. From each acquired image, RGB (red, green, blue) color channel information was extracted and means and other statistics calculated for a region-of-interest (ROI) that delineates an area of specific vegetation type. From the high-frequency (typically, 30 minute) imagery collected over several years, time series characterizing vegetation color, including canopy greenness, plus greenness rising and greenness falling transition dates, were summarized over 1- and 3-day intervals.

This dataset holds laboratory foliar chemical analyses results for field samples collected during the 2022 NASA Surface Biology Geology (SBG) High Frequency Time series (SHIFT) campaign in Santa Barbara County, California, USA. Leaf samples were collected from plots within the Dangermond Preserve, Sedgwick Reserve, and Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve during the period of 2022-02-23 to 2022-09-27 and dried for later analysis. This project collected field data contemporaneously with weekly flights of the NASA's Airborne Visible-Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) facility instrument over the study areas. Sixteen chemical traits from two different lab analyses are provided. (a) Elemental analysis: foliar nitrogen (%), phosphorus (%), magnesium (%), potassium (%), calcium (%), sulfur (%), boron (ppm), iron (ppm), manganese (ppm), copper (ppm), zinc (ppm), aluminum (ppm), and sodium (ppm). (b) AnkomFiber analysis: foliar hemicellulose and bound protein (%), cellulose (%), and lignin (%). Related data packages contain additional plot-level characterization, biogeochemical, reflectance, and foliar data. These data are provided in comma separated values (CSV) format.