Aerial Images of Alaska's Arctic Coastal Plain; 1948, 1949

This dataset is comprised of 36 black and white 9x9 inch aerial images of four different study areas on Alaska's Arctic Coastal Plain taken between 1948-1949 and obtained from the Alaska Satellite Facility in 2013. The images represent an historical snapshot of the landscape from that time. The...

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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
Alaska
North Slope Borough
Smith River
Colville River Delta
Chipp River
Teshekpuk Lake
Dalton HIghway
Arctic
Brant
Alaska North Slope
north slope
permafrost
Online Access:https://search.dataone.org/view/d200f52e-a05c-418c-a59a-3e80c2d085e2
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Summary:This dataset is comprised of 36 black and white 9x9 inch aerial images of four different study areas on Alaska's Arctic Coastal Plain taken between 1948-1949 and obtained from the Alaska Satellite Facility in 2013. The images represent an historical snapshot of the landscape from that time. The images were scanned and geo-referenced to various contemporary (2002-2010) satellite imagery using tie-point methods and splines for interpolation.

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