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    • Topographic Wetness Index raster - Land Cover Mapping, North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, 2019

    Metadata Updated: November 14, 2025

    "We obtained the 5 m Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Digital Terrain Model (IFSAR DTM) tiles for the study area from https://elevation.alaska.gov/ and mosaicked the products into a single image. We aggregated the DTM to 30 m resolution to represent a more generalized landscape level, and also to allow fairly rapid calculation of more processing-intensive terrain metrics. We then calculated the Sage Topographic Wetness Index at 30 m resolution. This integrates the local slope and the upstream contributing terrain in a continuous metric representing the potential wetness.

    The 'SAGA Wetness Index' is, as the name says, similar to the 'Topographic Wetness Index' (TWI), but it is based on a modified catchment area calculation ('Modified Catchment Area'), which does not think of the flow as very thin film. As result it predicts for cells situated in valley floors with a small vertical distance to a channel a more realistic, higher potential soil moisture compared to the standard TWI calculation."

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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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    Metadata Created Date September 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025

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    Harvested from DOI FWS DCAT-US

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025
    Publisher U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/fws-servcat-130646
    Data First Published 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:18
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://ddi.doi.gov/fws-data.json
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    Harvest Source Title DOI FWS DCAT-US
    Homepage URL https://iris.fws.gov/APPS/ServCat/Reference/Profile/130646
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Program Code 010:094, 010:028
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash e8f7921538aaf8b4128627b162ce63373ae312fbf99f565d7847eb1d168fd640
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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