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    • Permafrost Map for Northwestern Canada (Mackenzie Region), Version 1

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    The Permafrost Map for Northwestern Canada (Mackenzie Region) is a digital version of the 1:1,000,000 map produced by Heginbottom and Radburn [Heginbottom, J.A. and Radburn, L.K. (compilers) 1992. Permafrost and ground ice conditions of northwestern Canada; Geological Survey of Canada, Map 1691A, scale 1:1 000 000.] The map provides information on permafrost distribution and ground ice conditions in the Mackenzie Region of northwestern Canada. The data set comprises three data layers: maps of permafrost zones, rivers, and lakes. The map themes (layers) are in the ESRI Shapefile spatial data format (ArcView files). The permafrost map codes continuous, discontinuous, intermediate, sporadic, and isolated permafrost, and glaciers. Data are available via ftp

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher NSIDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1386206898-NSIDCV0
    Data First Published 1992-01-01
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 1992-12-31
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Permafrost Map for Northwestern Canada (Mackenzie Region), Version 1. Version 1. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, National Snow and Ice Data Center.
    Harvest Object Id 1669258c-0ebd-44ab-ba86-f01c30c7a8eb
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov:443/search/concepts/C1386206898-NSIDCV0.html
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -142.0 60.0 -120.0 70.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 9706dccf7e9d68f60a641ee16863210d419129bc8b32cfc9b3613254d1a8539a
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z/1992-12-31T23:59:59.999Z

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