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ANSCIA Barrow Ground Control Point Database

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR

This series of web pages presents site information for 63 Ground Control Points (GCP's) measured near Barrow, Alaska, during the summer of 2001 using Differential GPS.

Description

The GCP's were measured on the corners of buildings, ends of snowfences, base of telephone poles, and other features visible on small- to large-scale imagery. They are concentrated generally within 2 km of the Chukchi coast (coinciding with extent of the year 2000 air photos).

The GCP's will help researchers and other scientists working in the area to establish precise geographic or UTM coordinates for field sites, and to assist with georectification of aerial photography and satellite imagery. The GCP's were measured as part of an ongoing research project, Alaska North Slope Climate Impact Assessment (ANSCIA), which is funded by the National Science Foundation's program on Human Dimensions of the Arctic System.

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This database is being made publicly available as part of our objectives for data sharing and outreach to both the scientific community and the public at large. [Summary provided by University of Colorado.]

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Documentation and papers

Catalogue records · 2

Topics

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Satellite remote sensing 65%
Provenance · 1 source records, 18 field assertions
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NASA Earthdata CMRC1214614471-SCIOPS12 d agoJSON v1
FieldAssertionExtractorEvidence
access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/human-dimensions/environmental-governance-management/land-management/ground-control-pointsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/visible-wavelengths/visible-imagerysource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[modality].local:modality:remote-sensingenrichment · NASA CMRkeyword-concept-rules@1.0.0title+description (65%)
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:aerial-photographssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:aircraftsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:field-investigationsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:field-surveyssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:ground-based-observationssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:ground-stationssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:mapssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
descriptionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/Abstract
license_textsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
publication_datesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
spatialsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/SpatialExtent
temporalsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/TemporalExtents
titlesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/EntryTitle
version_labelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0