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Child Item 1: Flight Path GPS Logs and Browse Maps of Low-Altitude Transects of the Arctic Network of National Park Units and Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, July 2013

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2013-07-16
End Date
2013-07-18
Last Revision
2023-03-17

Citation

Marcot, B.G., Jorgenson, M.T., and DeGange, A.R., 2014, Low-altitude photographic transects of the Arctic Network of National Park Units and Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, July 2013 (ver 1.1, March 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KFIRWQ.

Summary

This is a child item of the USGS Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KFIRWQ This dataset contains GPS waypoint logs and browse maps of the aircraft flight paths used during low altitude photo survey transects in northwest Alaska, July 2013. Three flight transects were conducted from small aircraft over the National Park Service's Arctic Network (ARCN; Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park, and Noatak National Preserve) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Selawik National Wildlife Refuge. Version History: First release: May 2014 Revised:August 2021 (ver. 1.01) Revised:August 2023 (ver. 1.1)

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Alaska Science Center
Originator :
Bruce G Marcot, Anthony R DeGange, M. Torre Jorgenson
Metadata Contact :
Alaska Science Center
Publisher :
Alaska Science Center
Distributor :
USGS ScienceBase Team
SDC Data Owner :
Alaska Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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flightPath_GPSlogsMaps_metadata.html 57.14 KB text/html
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Purpose

Three aerial photo transects were conducted in July 2013, to provide photos of current conditions and prevalence of land cover types as a baseline for measuring future change, and to complement the existing grid-based sample photography of the region (Swanson 2013).

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