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Information detailing the fine-scale spatial distribution of tundra communities provided by high resolution vegetation mapping, is needed to understand the relative contributions of and relationships between single vegetation community measurements of greenhouse gas fluxes (e.g., ~1 m chamber flux) and those encompassing multiple vegetation communities (e.g., ~300 m eddy covariance measurements). The objectives of this study were: (1) to determine whether dominant Arctic tundra vegetation communities found in different locations are spectrally distinct and distinguishable using field spectroscopy methods; and (2) to test which combination of raw reflectance and vegetation indices retrieved from field and satellite data resulted in accurate vegetation maps and whether these were transferable across locations to develop a systematic method to map dominant vegetation communities within larger eddy covariance tower footprints distributed along a 300 km transect in northern Alaska. We showed vegetation community separability primarily in the 450\u2013510 nm, 630\u2013690 nm and 705\u2013745 nm regions of the spectrum with the field spectroscopy data. This is line with the different traits of these arctic tundra communities, with the drier, often non-vascular plant dominated communities having much higher reflectance in the 450\u2013510 nm and 630\u2013690 nm regions due to the lack of photosynthetic material, whereas the low reflectance values of the vascular plant dominated communities highlight the strong light absorption found here. High classification accuracies of 92% to 96% were achieved using linear discriminant analysis with raw and rescaled spectroscopy reflectance data and derived vegetation indices. However, lower classification accuracies (~70%) resulted when using the coarser 2.0 m WorldView-2 data inputs. The results from this study suggest that tundra vegetation communities are separable using plot-level spectroscopy with hand-held sensors. These results also show that tundra vegetation mapping can be scaled from the plot level (&lt;1 m) to patch level (&lt;500 m) using spectroscopy data rescaled to match the wavebands of the multispectral satellite remote sensing. We find that developing a consistent method for classification of vegetation communities across the flux tower sites is a challenging process, given the spatial variability in vegetation communities and the need for detailed vegetation survey data for training and validating classification algorithms. This study highlights the benefits of using fine-scale field spectroscopy measurements to obtain tundra vegetation classifications for landscape analyses and use in carbon flux scaling studies. Improved understanding of tundra vegetation distributions will also provide necessary insight into the ecological processes driving plant community assemblages in Arctic environments.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs8120978","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,28]],"date-time":"2016-11-28T10:25:22Z","timestamp":1480328722000},"page":"978","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":62,"title":["Mapping Arctic Tundra Vegetation Communities Using Field Spectroscopy and Multispectral Satellite Data in North Alaska, USA"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Scott","family":"Davidson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK"},{"name":"Department of Biology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182, USA"}]},{"given":"Maria","family":"Santos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Innovation, Environmental and Energy Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht 3512 JE, The Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Victoria","family":"Sloan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182, USA"}]},{"given":"Jennifer","family":"Watts","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, ISB 428, 32 Campus Drive, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0911-8107","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gareth","family":"Phoenix","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3504-026X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Walter","family":"Oechel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182, USA"},{"name":"Department of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK"}]},{"given":"Donatella","family":"Zona","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK"},{"name":"Department of Biology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"978","DOI":"10.1038\/35023137","article-title":"Acclimation of ecosystem CO2 exchange in the Alaskan Arctic in response to decadal climate warming","volume":"406","author":"Oechel","year":"2000","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"657","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1117368","article-title":"Role of land-surface changes in arctic summer warming","volume":"310","author":"Chapin","year":"2005","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"265","DOI":"10.1109\/JSTARS.2013.2253446","article-title":"Arctic tundra vegetation functional types based on photosynthetic physiology and optical properties","volume":"6","author":"Huemmrich","year":"2013","journal-title":"IEEE J. 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