Maps of land-cover classes of four areas in the central Chukotka (Russia)

• Main Authors: Shevtsova, Iuliia, Heim, Birgit, Kruse, Stefan, Herzschuh, Ulrike
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2021
• Subjects: 16-KP-01; 16-KP-02; 16-KP-03; 16-KP-04; AWI_Envi; AWI Arctic Land Expedition; Binary Object; Binary Object (File Size); Carbon in Permafrost / Kohlenstoff im Permafrost; Chukotka; Russia; DATE/TIME; Description; Event label; Keperveem_2016; KoPF; Land cover; Landsat; LSAT; Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems @ AWI; Remote sensing (Landsat); RU-Land_2016_Keperveem; vegetation; permafrost; taiga; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.935885; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.935885

In the Dataset four land-cover maps are included. Each map represents an area in central Chukotka along a vegetation gradient from treeless mountainous tundra (16-KP-04, Lake Rauchuagytgyn area), via the tundra–taiga transition (16-KP-01, Lake Ilirney area; 16-KP-03, Nutenvut lakes area) to the northern taiga (16-KP-02, Bolshoy Anyuy river area). Each map contains data on four land-cover classes, which are describing the following vegetation types of central Chukotka: larch closed-canopy forest, forest tundra and shrub tundra, graminoid tundra and prostrate herb tundra and barren areas. Land-cover classes were established field data /foliage projective cover of different taxa) and Landsat satellite data. Data format: Geo-Tiff, Projection: UTM WGS84, Pixel size: 30 x 30 m.