Polygonal Tundra Geomorphology Map from Landsat time series, 2014, Alaskan Arctic Coastal Plain (US)

Lara, Mark J.; Nitze, Ingmar; Grosse, Guido; McGuire, A. David

We mosaicked twelve LandSat-8 OLI satellite images taken during the summer of 2014, which were used in an object based image analysis (OBIA) to classify the landscape. We mapped seventeen of the most dominant geomorphic land cover classes on the Alaskan Coastal Plain (ACP):

value, class name

0 = No Data | 2 = Coalescent low-center polygons | 3 = Low-center polygons | 4 = Nonpatterned Drained Thaw Lake Basins | 7 = Drained slope | 8 = Flat-center polygons | 9 = High-center polygons | 10 = Sandy barrens | 11 = Sand dunes | 12 = Ice | 13 = Coastal saline waters | 16 = Rivers | 17 = Urban (i.e. towns and roads) | 18 = Riparian corridors | 20 = Ponds | 21 = Small lakes | 22 = Medium lakes | 23 = Large lakes

Credits

This work was supported through the Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE-Arctic) project supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Integrated Ecosystem Model for Alaska and Northwest Canada project supported by the USGS Alaska Climate Science Center and by the Arctic, Western, and Northwest Boreal Landscape Conservation Cooperatives

Detailed information about the methods can be found in the publication to which this dataset is a supplement.

Citation

In order to use these data, you must cite this data set with the following citation: Lara, M. J. SNAP Data Portal https://doi.org/10.21429/C9JS8S (2017)

Contact

Lara, Mark J.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Identifier DOI:10.21429/C9JS8S
Project(s) NGEE-Arctic, IEM for Alaska and Northwest Canada
Institute University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dept. Plant Biology
Source https://doi.org/10.21429/C9JS8S
Publication Date 2017-06-01T16:45:00
Version 2.0
Product Geomorphology Map
Sensor Landsat (OLI)
Files
  1. geomorphic land cover classes geotiff
  2. geomorphic land cover classes dbf table
Variables [Units]
  1. Value: id
  2. Count: pixel count
  3. class name: land cover classes
  4. SMR [aquatic, water, wet, dry, moist, other]
  5. Area [km²]
Region Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska
Spatial Reference EPSG:3338 NAD83 / Alaska Albers
Spatial Resolution 30 m
Spatial Coverage Latitude 68.00 to 71.45, Longitude -167.00 to -138.00
Temporal Coverage 2014
Temporal Resolution June to August
Format Geotiff
Is Supplement To

Lara, M., Nitze, I., Grosse, G. et al. Tundra landform and vegetation productivity trend maps for the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska. Sci Data 5, 180058 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.58
Related to

Lara, M. J. SNAP Data Portal https://doi.org/10.21429/C9F04D (2017)

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