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Arctic Alaska Vegetation, Geobotanical, Physiographic Maps, 1993-2005

Metadata Updated: September 19, 2025

This data set provides the spatial distributions of vegetation types, geobotanical characteristics, and physiographic features for the Arctic tundra region of Alaska for the period 1993-2005. Specific attributes include dominant vegetation, bioclimate subzones, floristic subprovinces, landscape types, lake coverage, and substrate chemistry. This data set generally includes areas North and West of the forest boundary and excludes areas that have a boreal flora such as the Aleutian Islands and alpine tundra regions south of treeline.

Access & Use Information

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 April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 19, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 19, 2025
Publisher ORNL_DAAC
Maintainer
Identifier 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1353
Data Last Modified 2025-09-10
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 54648831-0805-4528-914c-8dc6dafa7992
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=Alaska_Arctic_Tundra_Veg_Map_1353&ac=true
Old Spatial {"WestBoundingCoordinate":-173.052,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":71.3703,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-138.542,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":57.0847},"CARTESIAN"
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 6838ba14b952877b4586ef2f485d186c412c63f0360cde5f46998a79f54b1996
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 1993-06-01/1993-06-01

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