Reduced-Resolution QuickBird Imagery and Related GIS Layers for Barrow, Alaska, USA

Data Contributors

MANLEY, WILLIAM F.
LESTAK, LEANNE R.
TWEEDIE, CRAIG
MASLANIK, JIM

Parameters

INFRARED IMAGERY
REFLECTANCE
REFLECTED INFRARED
VISIBLE IMAGERY

Instruments

QUICKBIRD/BHRC-60 : QUICKBIRD BALL HIGH RESOLUTION CAMERA 60

This data set contains reduced-resolution QuickBird imagery and geospatial data for the entire Barrow QuickBird image area 156.15° W - 157.07° W, 71.15° N - 71.41° N) and the Barrow B4 Quadrangle (156.29° W - 156.89° W, 71.25° N - 71.40° N), for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing software. The original QuickBird data sets were acquired by DigitialGlobe from 1 to 2 August 2002, and consist of orthorectified satellite imagery. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)-compliant metadata for all value-added data sets are provided in text, HTML, and XML formats.

Accessory layers include: 1:250,000- and 1:63,360-scale USGS Digital Raster Graphic (DRG) mosaic images (GeoTIFF format); 1:250,000- and 1:63,360-scale USGS quadrangle index maps (ESRI Shapefile format); an index map for the 62 QuickBird tiles (ESRI Shapefile format); and a simple polygon layer of the extent of the Barrow QuickBird image area and the Barrow B4 quadrangle area (ESRI Shapefile format).

The baseline geospatial data support education, outreach, and multi-disciplinary research of environmental change in Barrow, which is an area of focused scientific interest.

Data are available either via FTP or on CD-ROM.

Data Citation

Reduced-resolution QuickBird imagery and related GIS layers for Barrow, Alaska, USA