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Shapefiles Defining Areas of Analysis for Proglacial Sediment Studies on Mount Rainier, 1960 to 2017

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1960-01-01
End Date
2017-12-31

Citation

Anderson, S.W., 2021, Supporting Datasets for Proglacial Topographic Change Analyses on Mount Rainier, 1960 to 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9056ZNG.

Summary

This repository contains suites of shapefiles defining areas of analysis used in Anderson and Shean (2021). Three types of shapefiles are included, each bundled into a zip file: First, polygons delineating areas with elevation changes we judge to be overwhelmingly due to sediment motion (as opposed to snow or ice melt), used to calculate final volumes of change reported in Anderson and Shean (2021). File names indicate basin and DoD interval associated with a given polygon. Second, polygons defining areas used for averaging Landsat NDVI values. Third, regular valley-spanning cross sections used to calculate longitudinal profiles of the valley floors over time. Calculating the minimum elevation across these cross sections using the [...]

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longitudinal_profile_stationing.zip 2.23 MB application/zip
rainier_landsat_AOIs.zip 7.34 KB application/zip
Rainier_topographic_change_AOIs.zip 181.07 KB application/zip

Purpose

These data were used to assess proglacial sediment dynamics on Mount Rainier.

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