Aerial Images of Alaska's Arctic Coastal Plain; 1974-1979

This dataset is comprised of 10 aerial images of three different study areas on Alaska's Arctic Coastal Plain flown by NASA in 1974, 1977, 1979 and obtained from the USGS EROS Data Center via the EarthExplorer website in 2013. The images represent an historical snapshot of the landscape from th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tape, Ken D.
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2015
Subjects:
imagery
landscape change
lake drainage
permafrost degradation
marine transgression
coastal retreat
brant geese
white-fronted geese
caribou
Smith
Garry
Chipp
Colville
Dalton
Biota
Climatology
Environment
ImageryBaseMapsEarthCover
GeoscientificInformation
Inland Waters
Dalton Highway
Alaska
North Slope Borough
Smith River
Colville River Delta
Chipp River
Teshekpuk Lake
Arctic
Eros
Brant
Alaska North Slope
north slope
permafrost
Online Access:https://search.dataone.org/view/82299ccc-e627-4e94-82f0-0a7f8007dc05
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Summary:This dataset is comprised of 10 aerial images of three different study areas on Alaska's Arctic Coastal Plain flown by NASA in 1974, 1977, 1979 and obtained from the USGS EROS Data Center via the EarthExplorer website in 2013. The images represent an historical snapshot of the landscape from that time. The images were scanned and georeferenced to various contemporary (2002-2010) satellite imagery using tie-point methods and splines for interpolation.

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