GGD639 Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map Investigator Donald (Skip) A. Walker ffdaw@uaf.edu 1 907 474-2460

University of Alaska at Fairbanks

Institute of Arctic Biology

Institute of Arctic Biology

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks AK 99775-6780 USA EARTH SCIENCE Biosphere Vegetation Vegetation Cover EARTH SCIENCE Biosphere Vegetation Vegetation Species Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map GIS Maps 60 90 -180 180 GEOGRAPHIC REGION ARCTIC English NSIDC_FGDC NSIDC Frozen Ground Data Center http://nsidc.org/fgdc/ Data Center Contact NSIDC FGDC User Services nsidc@nsidc.org 1 303 492-6199 1 303 492-2468

National Snow and Ice Data Center

CIRES, 449 UCB

University of Colorado

Boulder CO 80309-0449 USA Walker, D.A. 1999. An integrated vegetation mapping approach for northern Alaska (1:4M scale). International Journal of Remote Sensing 20:2895-2920.

The Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM) defines the spatial extent of dominant vegetation in terms of the dominant plant growth forms and physiognomy. Mapped vegetation extends south to the treeline, which varies with longitude. Spatial coverage is 60 to 90 N, -180 to 180 W. The map is available in Adobe PDF format, ESRI Arc/Info and Shapefile format, among others.

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION http://nsidc.org/data/gis/ GIS Data and Resources at NSIDC CEOS IDN DIF 9.7 2003-07-09 2006-12-13 View Metadata link was added to catalog page. No need to send to GCMD since only DIFS Plus changed.