National Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring System for Canada
Data Product Name
National Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring System for Canada
Description
The National Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring System (NTEMS) was developed by the Canadian Forest Service to provide national-scale baseline information on Canada's forested ecosystems. Based largely on data from the Landsat series of satellites, free and open access to analysis ready data, and utilization of high performance computing, NTEMS enabled the recreation of the history of Canada's forests at a higher level of spatial and categorical detail than ever before. Through NTEMS research, methods have been developed for image compositing, change detection, and change attribution using Landsat time series data. NTEMS outputs have subsequently enabled the characterization of post-disturbance recovery, an annual land cover data cube, and national representations of forest structure. When using this data, please cite as: Hermosilla, T., M.A. Wulder, J.C. White, N.C. Coops, G.W. Hobart, L.B. Campbell, 2016. Mass data processing of time series Landsat imagery: pixels to data products for forest monitoring. International Journal of Digital Earth 9(11), 1035-1054 (Hermosilla et al. 2016).