ABoVE: Annual Thaw Slump Expansion on East Fork Chandalar River, Alaska, 2008-2017 : Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE)

This dataset provides a time series of spatial data showing the expansion of a thaw slump on the East Fork Chandalar River near the community of Venetie, Alaska, from 2008 through 2017. The erosion of vegetated areas along the river was documented by manually digitizing imagery from ESRI basemaps an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Anderson , V., Brown, D.R.N., Brinkman, T.J.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center 2019
Subjects:
CRYOSPHERE > FROZEN GROUND > PERMAFROST
LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION > EROSION
LANDSAT > DIGITIZER
subsistence access
thermocarst
thaw slump
Arctic
permafrost
Alaska
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ornldaac/1724
https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1724
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Summary:This dataset provides a time series of spatial data showing the expansion of a thaw slump on the East Fork Chandalar River near the community of Venetie, Alaska, from 2008 through 2017. The erosion of vegetated areas along the river was documented by manually digitizing imagery from ESRI basemaps and Landsat 5 (TM), 7 (ETM+), and 8 (OLI), using the band combination of shortwave infrared 2, shortwave infrared 1, and red.

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