Alaska Maps and Data

Vegetation in the vicinity of the Toolik Field Station, Alaska. 2008.
D.A. Walker and H.A. Maier. Biological Papers of the University of Alaska, No. 28. Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK. ISBN: 978-0-9767525-2-3.

High resolution (300 dpi) map:

• Full Map: uk25k_Region27x40.pdf (21 mb)
• Side 1: uk25k_Region27x40_p1.pdf (9 mb)
• Side 2: uk25k_Region27x40_p2.pdf (13 mb)

Low resolution (50 dpi) map:

• Full Map: uk25k_Region27x40_50dpi.pdf (12 mb)
• Side 1: uk25k_Region27x40_p1_50dpi.pdf (8 mb)
• Side 2: uk25k_Region27x40_p2_50dpi.pdf (13 mb)

Upper Kuparuk River Region Vegetation .

• Metadata
• uk25k_veg_14class.lyr (ArcMap layer file)
• uk25k_veg.mdb (ArcMap personal geodatabase file containing spatial data and legend colormap lookup table. 6.6 mb)

False Color Infrared Image of the Seward Peninsula.

A preliminary Landsat MSS-derived land-cover map of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska: classification methods and comparison with existing data sets.

The data report is available as low (203 k) and high (1,206 k) resolution PDF files.

The unsupervised landcover classification is available as a GZip compressed grid saved as an ArcInfo export file.

• Metadata
• spmss_u3.e00.gz (8.1/478 Mb compressed/uncompressed)
• spmss_legend.csv (legend and colormap)
• spmss_u3.lyr (ArcMap layer file)

Arctic slope boundary. Arc/Info polygon coverage.

• as_bnd.e00.gz (359 kb compressed, 1,720 kb uncompressed)
• Metadata

Landsat MSS-derived land-cover map of northern Alaska: extrapolation methods and a comparison with photo-interpreted and AVHRR-derived maps. Int. J. Remote Sensing. 20(15 & 16):2921-2946. [1.5 mb pdf]

• ns_landcov.e00.gz (13 Mb compressed, 609 Mb uncompressed)
• Text Summary
• Metadata
• Colormap and legend file: ns_colormap.txt

Landcover of the Kuparuk region.

Detailed description of the dataset (146 kb PDF).

The data is available as a GZip compressed Geo-TIFF file .

• Metadata
• kup_lcov.tif.gz (2.1/10 Mb compressed/uncompressed)

Johnson AW, Viereck LA, Johnson RE, Melchior H. 1960. Vegetation Map of the Ogotoruk Creek Drainage. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska, College, AK. Unpublished. (Digitized: June 2004, Alaska Geobotany Center).

• Scanned map [2.1 mb pdf]
• Scanned map registered to UTM zone 3, NAD27 coordinates (?? mb geo-tiff)
• Metadata

This map is similar to the vegetation map (Plate 5) described in:
Johnson AW, Viereck LA, Johnson RE, Melchior H. 1966. Vegetation and flora. In: Wilimovsky NJ, editor. The environment of the Cape Thompson region, Alaska. OakRidge, TN: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. p 277-354.