Landsat derived patterns of lake drainage in northern Alaska between 1975-2019

• Main Authors: Lara, Mark, Chen, Yaping, Jones, Benjamin
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2021
• Subjects: Lake drainage; gradual lake drainage; catastrophic lake drainage; talik; permafrost; gully; tundra; Alaska; Talik; Ice; Tundra
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2bv79w8s; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2BV79W8S

Forty-five years (i.e. 1975-2019) of Landsat observations were used to map the spatiotemporal patterns of lake drainage in northern Alaska. All Landsat data was pre-processed by the United States Geological Survey and downloaded by google earth engine in a radiometrically, atmospherically, and geome...