Landsat Derived Historical Lake Extents

• Main Authors: Yongwei Sheng, Kenneth M. Hinkel, John D. Lenters, Laurence C. Smith, Evan Lyons
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center
• Subjects: Hydrology; Arctic; climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; Barrow Peninsula; Alaska North Slope; Barrow; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5065/D6TM7884

Lake extent maps for the Alaska North Slope and Barrow peninsula were generated from selected Landsat satellite images between 1977 and 2008 available at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) database. The acquisition dates for the images are included in the individual filenames. The lake maps...