Pre-ABoVE: Remotely Sensed Active Layer Thickness, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, 1992-2000

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Active layer thickness (ALT) is a critical parameter for monitoring the status of permafrost that is typically measured at specific locations using probing, in situ temperature sensors, or other ground-based observations. The thickness of the active layer is the average annual thaw depth, in permafrost areas, due to solar heating of the surface. This data set includes the mean Remotely Sensed Active Layer Thickness (ReSALT) over years 1992 to 2000 for an area near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. The data were produced by an Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technique that measures seasonal surface subsidence and infers ALT. ReSALT estimates were validated by comparison with ground-based ALT measurements at multiple sites. These results indicate remote sensing techniques based on InSAR could be an effective way to measure and monitor ALT over large areas on the Arctic coastal plain. These data provide gridded (100-m) estimates of active layer thickness (cm; ALT), seasonal subsidence (cm) and subsidence trend (mm/yr), as well as calculated uncertainty in each of these parameters. This data set was developed in support of NASA's Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) field campaign. The data are presented in one netCDF (*.nc) file.

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5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DInSAR_Prudhoe_Bay_1267%26ac%3Dtrue
5 https://daac.ornl.gov%2FABOVE%2Fguides%2FInSAR_Prudhoe_Bay.html
5 https://doi.org%2F10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1267
5 https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fprotected%2Fbundle%2FInSAR_Prudhoe_Bay_1267.zip
5 https://daac.ornl.gov%2Fgraphics%2Fbrowse%2Fsdat-tds%2F1267_1_fit.png
5 https://above.nasa.gov%2F
5 https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Fabove%2FInSAR_Prudhoe_Bay%2Fcomp%2FReSALT_prudhoe.txt
5 https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Fabove%2FInSAR_Prudhoe_Bay%2Fcomp%2FInSAR_Prudhoe_Bay.pdf
5 https://thredds.daac.ornl.gov%2Fthredds%2Fcatalog%2Fornldaac%2F1267%2Fcatalog.html
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=InSAR_Prudhoe_Bay_1267&ac=true
21 https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1267
57 InSAR_Prudhoe_Bay_1267.zip https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/protected/bundle/InSAR_Prudhoe_Bay_1267.zip
34 1267_1_fit.png https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/sdat-tds/1267_1_fit.png
33 InSAR_Prudhoe_Bay.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/above/InSAR_Prudhoe_Bay/comp/InSAR_Prudhoe_Bay.pdf
5 https://above.nasa.gov/
5 ReSALT_prudhoe.txt https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/above/InSAR_Prudhoe_Bay/comp/ReSALT_prudhoe.txt
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=InSAR_Prudhoe_Bay_1267&ac=true
21 https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1267
57 InSAR_Prudhoe_Bay_1267.zip https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/protected/bundle/InSAR_Prudhoe_Bay_1267.zip
34 1267_1_fit.png https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/sdat-tds/1267_1_fit.png
5 https://above.nasa.gov
47 ReSALT_prudhoe.txt https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/above/InSAR_Prudhoe_Bay/comp/ReSALT_prudhoe.txt
33 InSAR_Prudhoe_Bay.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/above/InSAR_Prudhoe_Bay/comp/InSAR_Prudhoe_Bay.pdf
0 The metadata's original source. https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2170968546-ORNL_CLOUD.iso19115

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  • earth-science-topography-land-surface-terrain-elevation
  • earth-science-frozen-ground-cryosphere-active-layer

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