Recovered Drained Thaw Lake Basins (DTLBs) on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska using InSAR DEM and Remote Sensing Imagery, Version 1.0

• Main Authors: Sheng, Y., Wang, J., Hinkel, K.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory 2011
• Subjects: geoscientificInformation; Arctic; InSAR; ARCSS; NSF Arctic System Science; ACADIS; Advanced Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service; Chukchi Sea; Barrow; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; north slope; Point Barrow; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5065/d6rr1wcd; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/#view/doi:10.5065/D6RR1WCD

Paleoshorelines of Drained Thaw Lake Basins (DTLBs) on the Alaskan North Slope were mapped using the Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Digital Elevation Model (InSAR DEM) and remote sensing imagery. A total of ~10,200 km2 of DTLBs were recovered on a ~22,000 km2 region with the complete latitudinal range of the western Arctic Coastal Plain (ACP) of Alaska. This region extends from the Point Barrow (71*deg*23′N) southward to the northern end of the Arctic Foothills physiographic province (69*deg*30′N), and from the Beaufort Sea (154*deg*23′W) westward to the Chukchi Sea (158*deg*13′W). Shape of the region is confined by the valid spatial extent of the airborne InSAR DEM acquired by Intermap Technologies in the summers of 2002-2004. For further information, see: Wang, J., Y. Sheng, K.M. Hinkel, and E.A. Lyons, 2011. Drained thaw lake basin recovery on the western Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska using high-resolution digital elevation models and remote sensing imagery, Remote Sensing of Environment (2011), doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.10.027.