Alaska Cook Inlet Lakes Survey Design Contact:

Hydrography Database (NHD) was used as the sampling frame. The polygon shapefile was used to create a point shapefile based on the lake centroids. The sample frame is restricted to lakes identified as greater than 4 hectares. An additional attribute was added that identified glacier and non-glacier...

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Main Author: Doug Dasher
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.541.8544
http://dec.alaska.gov/water/wqsar/docs/alaskacookinletlakesdesigndocumentation.pdf
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Summary:Hydrography Database (NHD) was used as the sampling frame. The polygon shapefile was used to create a point shapefile based on the lake centroids. The sample frame is restricted to lakes identified as greater than 4 hectares. An additional attribute was added that identified glacier and non-glacier lakes by Ted Moran, USGS Alaska Science Center For more information on NHD and NHDPlus please check the websites: