High-Resolution Rectified Aerial Photography for Collaborative Research of Environmental Change at Barrow, Alaska, USA  View Catalog Page Entry ID
ARCSS306
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.
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: 71.45°
S: 70.9°
E: -155.4°
W: -157.47°
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: L. R. Lestak, W. F. Manley, P. M. Sturtevant, J. A. Maslanik, C. E. Tweedie, and J. Brown
Dataset Title: High-Resolution Rectified Aerial Photography for Collaborative Research of Environmental Change at Barrow, Alaska, USA
Dataset Release Date: 2007-05-01
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Data Presentation Form: DVD
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/arcss306.html
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1948-08-04
Stop Date: 1948-08-04
Start Date: 1949-07-29
Stop Date: 1949-07-29
Start Date: 1955-08-12
Stop Date: 1955-08-14
Start Date: 1962-08-12
Stop Date: 1962-08-24
Start Date: 1964-07-14
Stop Date: 1964-07-14
Start Date: 1979-07-15
Stop Date: 1979-07-15
Start Date: 1984-08-31
Stop Date: 1984-08-31
Start Date: 1997-07-16
Stop Date: 1997-07-16
Location Keywords
- Continent North America United States Of America Alaska Barrow
Science Keywords
- Spectral/Engineering Visible Wavelengths Visible Imagery Aerial photography
Ancillary Keywords
- Aerial Photography
- Alaska
- ARCSS Data Coordination Center
- ARCSS306
- Barrow
- Digital Elevation Model
- Digital Mapping
- Digital Surface Model
- GIS
- IFSAR
- Maps
- NSIDC > National Snow and Ice Data Center
- OPP-0100120
- OPP-0224071
- ORRI > Orthorectified Radar Imagery
- QuickBird
- Visible Imagery
- Geoscientific Information
Platform
- AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS
- QUICKBIRD DigitalGlobe's QuickBird
Instrument
- CAMERAS
- IFSAR Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
- QUICKBIRD/BHRC-60 QuickBird Ball High Resolution Camera 60
Project
- NSF/OPP Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation
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.
Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Originating Center
NSIDC_ARCSS
Data Center
NSIDC Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/arcss/
Data Set ID: arcss306
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC ARCSS User Services
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: DVD
Distribution Size: 8.5 GB
Distribution Format: GeoTIFF and ESRI Shapefiles
Fees: None
Personnel
Leanne R. Lestak
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
University of Colorado
216 UCB
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0216
Country: USA
William F. Manley
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
450 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Paige M. Sturtevant
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
University of Colorado
216 UCB
City: Boulder
Province or State: Colorado
Postal Code: 80309-0216
Country: USA
JIM MASLANIK
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: (303) 492-6199
Fax: (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@kryos.colorado.edu
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309
Craig Tweedie
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
500 University Blvd.
Biology Bldg., Room 226
City: El Paso
Province or State: TX
Postal Code: 79968-0513
Country: USA
Jerry Brown
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 508-457-4982
Fax: 508-457-4982
Email: jerrybrown@igc.apc.org
Contact Address:
PO Box 7
City: Woods Hole
Province or State: MA
Postal Code: 02543
Country: USA
NSIDC USER SERVICES
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Related URL
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Polar Ice Sheet DEMs and Elevation Data
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Barrow Area Information Database - Internet Map Server
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Imagery and Related GIS Data for Barrow, Alaska, USA
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Reduced-Resolution IFSAR Imagery and Related Data for Barrow, Alaska, USA
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Reduced-Resolution QuickBird Imagery and Related GIS Layers for Barrow, Alaska, USA
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.
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2007-05-18
Last DIF Revision Date: 2007-07-08
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