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  <Entry_ID>ARCSS306</Entry_ID>
  <Entry_Title>High-Resolution Rectified Aerial Photography for Collaborative Research of Environmental Change at Barrow, Alaska, USA</Entry_Title>
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    <Dataset_Creator>L. R. Lestak, W. F. Manley, P. M. Sturtevant, J. A. Maslanik, C. E. Tweedie, and J. Brown</Dataset_Creator>
    <Dataset_Title>High-Resolution Rectified Aerial Photography for Collaborative Research of Environmental Change at Barrow, Alaska, USA</Dataset_Title>
    <Dataset_Release_Date>2007-05-01</Dataset_Release_Date>
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    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>Leanne</First_Name>
    <Middle_Name>R.</Middle_Name>
    <Last_Name>Lestak</Last_Name>
    <Contact_Address>
      <Address>Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)</Address>
      <Address>University of Colorado</Address>
      <Address>216 UCB</Address>
      <City>Boulder</City>
      <Province_or_State>CO</Province_or_State>
      <Postal_Code>80309-0216</Postal_Code>
      <Country>USA</Country>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>William</First_Name>
    <Middle_Name>F.</Middle_Name>
    <Last_Name>Manley</Last_Name>
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      <Address> Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR)</Address>
      <Address>450 UCB</Address>
      <Address>University of Colorado</Address>
      <City>Boulder</City>
      <Province_or_State>CO</Province_or_State>
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    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>Paige</First_Name>
    <Middle_Name>M.</Middle_Name>
    <Last_Name>Sturtevant</Last_Name>
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      <Address>University of Colorado</Address>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>Jim</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Maslanik</Last_Name>
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      <Address>University of Colorado</Address>
      <City>Boulder</City>
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      <Postal_Code>80309</Postal_Code>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>Craig</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Tweedie</Last_Name>
    <Email>ctweedie@utep.edu</Email>
    <Contact_Address>
      <Address>University of Texas at El Paso</Address>
      <Address>Department of Biology</Address>
      <Address>500 University Blvd.</Address>
      <Address>Biology Bldg., Room 226</Address>
      <City>El Paso</City>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>Jerry</First_Name>
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    <Email>jerrybrown@igc.apc.org</Email>
    <Phone>1 508 457-4982 </Phone>
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    <Contact_Address>
      <Address>International Permafrost Association</Address>
      <Address>PO Box 7</Address>
      <City>Woods Hole</City>
      <Province_or_State>MA</Province_or_State>
      <Postal_Code>02543</Postal_Code>
      <Country>USA</Country>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Technical Contact</Role>
    <First_Name>NSIDC</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>User Services</Last_Name>
    <Email>nsidc@nsidc.org</Email>
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    <Contact_Address>
      <Address>National Snow and Ice Data Center</Address>
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      <Address>University of Colorado</Address>
      <City>Boulder</City>
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    <Category>EARTH SCIENCE</Category>
    <Topic>Spectral/Engineering</Topic>
    <Term>Visible Wavelengths</Term>
    <Variable_Level_1>Visible Imagery</Variable_Level_1>
    <Detailed_Variable>Aerial Photography</Detailed_Variable>
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  <ISO_Topic_Category>Geoscientific Information</ISO_Topic_Category>
  <Keyword>Aerial Photography</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Alaska</Keyword>
  <Keyword>ARCSS306</Keyword>
  <Keyword>ARCSS Data Coordination Center</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Barrow</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Digital Elevation Model</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Digital Mapping</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Digital Surface Model</Keyword>
  <Keyword>GIS</Keyword>
  <Keyword>IFSAR</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Maps</Keyword>
  <Keyword>NSIDC &gt; National Snow and Ice Data Center</Keyword>
  <Keyword>OPP-0100120</Keyword>
  <Keyword>OPP-0224071</Keyword>
  <Keyword>ORRI &gt; Orthorectified Radar Imagery</Keyword>
  <Keyword>QuickBird</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Visible Imagery</Keyword>
  <Sensor_Name>
    <Short_Name>CAMERAS</Short_Name>
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  <Sensor_Name>
    <Short_Name>IFSAR</Short_Name>
    <Long_Name>Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar</Long_Name>
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  <Sensor_Name>
    <Short_Name>QUICKBIRD/BHRC-60</Short_Name>
    <Long_Name>QuickBird Ball High Resolution Camera 60</Long_Name>
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  <Source_Name>
    <Short_Name>AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS</Short_Name>
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  <Source_Name>
    <Short_Name>QUICKBIRD</Short_Name>
    <Long_Name>DigitalGlobe's QuickBird</Long_Name>
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  <Temporal_Coverage>
    <Start_Date>1948-08-04</Start_Date>
    <Stop_Date>1948-08-04</Stop_Date>
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  <Temporal_Coverage>
    <Start_Date>1949-07-29</Start_Date>
    <Stop_Date>1949-07-29</Stop_Date>
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  <Temporal_Coverage>
    <Start_Date>1955-08-12</Start_Date>
    <Stop_Date>1955-08-14</Stop_Date>
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  <Temporal_Coverage>
    <Start_Date>1962-08-12</Start_Date>
    <Stop_Date>1962-08-24</Stop_Date>
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  <Temporal_Coverage>
    <Start_Date>1964-07-14</Start_Date>
    <Stop_Date>1964-07-14</Stop_Date>
  </Temporal_Coverage>
  <Temporal_Coverage>
    <Start_Date>1979-07-15</Start_Date>
    <Stop_Date>1979-07-15</Stop_Date>
  </Temporal_Coverage>
  <Temporal_Coverage>
    <Start_Date>1984-08-31</Start_Date>
    <Stop_Date>1984-08-31</Stop_Date>
  </Temporal_Coverage>
  <Temporal_Coverage>
    <Start_Date>1997-07-16</Start_Date>
    <Stop_Date>1997-07-16</Stop_Date>
  </Temporal_Coverage>
  <Data_Set_Progress>complete</Data_Set_Progress>
  <Spatial_Coverage>
    <Southernmost_Latitude>70.9</Southernmost_Latitude>
    <Northernmost_Latitude>71.45</Northernmost_Latitude>
    <Westernmost_Longitude>-157.47</Westernmost_Longitude>
    <Easternmost_Longitude>-155.4</Easternmost_Longitude>
  </Spatial_Coverage>
  <Location>
    <Location_Category>CONTINENT</Location_Category>
    <Location_Type>NORTH AMERICA</Location_Type>
    <Location_Subregion1>UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</Location_Subregion1>
    <Location_Subregion2>ALASKA</Location_Subregion2>
    <Detailed_Location>BARROW</Detailed_Location>
  </Location>
  <Project>
    <Short_Name>NSF/OPP</Short_Name>
    <Long_Name>Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation</Long_Name>
  </Project>
  <Quality>Investigators have provided a quality control report for the data from each of the eight date ranges. These can be found in the directory for each year.</Quality>
  <Data_Set_Language>English</Data_Set_Language>
  <Originating_Center>NSIDC_ARCSS</Originating_Center>
  <Data_Center>
    <Data_Center_Name>
      <Short_Name>NSIDC</Short_Name>
      <Long_Name>National Snow and Ice Data Center</Long_Name>
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    <Data_Center_URL>http://nsidc.org</Data_Center_URL>
    <Personnel>
      <Role>Data Center Contact</Role>
      <First_Name>NSIDC</First_Name>
      <Last_Name>User Services</Last_Name>
      <Email>nsidc@nsidc.org</Email>
      <Phone>1 303 492-6199 </Phone>
      <Fax>1 303  492-2468 </Fax>
      <Contact_Address>
        <Address>National Snow and Ice Data Center</Address>
        <Address>CIRES, 449 UCB</Address>
        <Address>University of Colorado</Address>
        <City>Boulder</City>
        <Province_or_State>CO</Province_or_State>
        <Postal_Code>80309-0449</Postal_Code>
        <Country>USA</Country>
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  <Data_Center>
    <Data_Center_Name>
      <Short_Name>NSIDC_ARCSS</Short_Name>
      <Long_Name>NSIDC Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center</Long_Name>
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    <Data_Center_URL>http://nsidc.org/arcss/</Data_Center_URL>
    <Personnel>
      <Role>Data Center Contact</Role>
      <First_Name>NSIDC ARCSS</First_Name>
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      <Email>nsidc@nsidc.org</Email>
      <Phone>1 303 492-6199 </Phone>
      <Fax>1 303  492-2468 </Fax>
      <Contact_Address>
        <Address>National Snow and Ice Data Center</Address>
        <Address>CIRES, 449 UCB</Address>
        <Address>University of Colorado</Address>
        <City>Boulder</City>
        <Province_or_State>CO</Province_or_State>
        <Postal_Code>80309-0449</Postal_Code>
        <Country>USA</Country>
      </Contact_Address>
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  <Distribution>
    <Distribution_Media>DVD</Distribution_Media>
    <Distribution_Size>8.5 GB</Distribution_Size>
    <Distribution_Format>ESRI Shapefiles</Distribution_Format>
  </Distribution>
  <Distribution>
    <Distribution_Media>DVD</Distribution_Media>
    <Distribution_Size>8.5 GB</Distribution_Size>
    <Distribution_Format>GeoTIFF</Distribution_Format>
  </Distribution>
  <Reference>Barrow Area Information Database - Internet Map Server. http://www.baidims.org Brown, J. and P. L. Johnson. 1965. Pedo-ecological investigation, Barrow, Alaska. U.S. Army CRREL Technical Report 159.

Brown, J. and P. L. Johnson. 1966. U.S. Army CRREL Topographic Map, Barrow, Alaska (1:25,000). U.S. Army CRREL Special Report 101.

Manley, W. F., L. R. Lestak, C. E. Tweedie, and J. A. Maslanik. 2005. High-resolution radar imagery, digital elevation models, and related GIS layers for Barrow, Alaska, USA. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. DVD.

Manley, W. F., L. R. Lestak, C. E. Tweedie, and J. A. Maslanik. 2006. High-resolution QuickBird imagery and related GIS layers for Barrow, Alaska, USA. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. DVD.</Reference>
  <Summary>This data set includes aerial photography of Barrow, Alaska, which has been geocorrected to a 2002 QuickBird satellite image or Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) imagery. Photography included in the set is from these specific dates, from 1948 to 1997: 4 August 1948, 29 July 1949, 12-14 August 1955, 12-24 August 1962, 14 July 1964, 15 July 1979, 31 August 1984, and 16 July 1997.

Data are in GeoTIFF and ESRI Shapefile formats with FGDC compliant metadata. Data on DVD are available for ordering. Note: The data for 14 July 1964 span both DVDs.</Summary>
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    <Description>Barrow Area Information Database - Internet MapServer</Description>
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    <Description>Imagery and Related GIS Data for Barrow, Alaska, USA</Description>
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  <Related_URL>
    <URL_Content_Type>
      <Type>VIEW RELATED INFORMATION</Type>
    </URL_Content_Type>
    <URL>http://nsidc.org/data/arcss301.html</URL>
    <Description>Alaska North Slope 100 m Digital Elevation Model (DEM)</Description>
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  <Related_URL>
    <URL_Content_Type>
      <Type>VIEW RELATED INFORMATION</Type>
    </URL_Content_Type>
    <URL>http://nsidc.org/data/arcss031.html</URL>
    <Description>Point Barrow, Alaska and Vicinity Bathymetry</Description>
  </Related_URL>
  <Related_URL>
    <URL_Content_Type>
      <Type>VIEW RELATED INFORMATION</Type>
    </URL_Content_Type>
    <URL>http://nsidc.org/data/dems/index.html</URL>
    <Description>Polar Ice Sheet DEMs and Elevation Data</Description>
  </Related_URL>
  <Related_URL>
    <URL_Content_Type>
      <Type>VIEW RELATED INFORMATION</Type>
    </URL_Content_Type>
    <URL>http://nsidc.org/data/arcss303.html</URL>
    <Description>Reduced-Resolution IFSAR Imagery and Related Data for Barrow, Alaska, USA</Description>
  </Related_URL>
  <Related_URL>
    <URL_Content_Type>
      <Type>VIEW RELATED INFORMATION</Type>
    </URL_Content_Type>
    <URL>http://nsidc.org/data/arcss305.html</URL>
    <Description>Reduced-Resolution QuickBird Imagery and Related GIS Layers for Barrow, Alaska, USA</Description>
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  <Metadata_Name>CEOS IDN DIF</Metadata_Name>
  <Metadata_Version>9.7</Metadata_Version>
  <DIF_Creation_Date>2007-05-01</DIF_Creation_Date>
  <Last_DIF_Revision_Date>2012-08-28</Last_DIF_Revision_Date>
  <DIF_Revision_History>Added an archiving data center.</DIF_Revision_History>
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