Boike, Julia; Grau, Thomas; Heim, Birgit; Günther, Frank; Langer, Moritz; Muster, Sina; Gouttevin, Isabelle; Lange, Stephan (2015): Natural complexes and terrain types in Yakutia - subset of Federov et al. 1989 [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.855118, In supplement to: Boike, J et al. (2016): Satellite-derived changes in the permafrost landscape of central Yakutia, 2000–2011: Wetting, drying, and fires. Global and Planetary Change, 139, 116-127, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.01.001
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Source:
Fedorov, Alexander N; Botulu, T A; Varlamov, S P (1989): Permafrost landscapes of Yakutia (Explanation note to the geocryological landscape map of the Yakutian ASSR, scal. 1 : 2 500 000) (in Russian). Glavnoe Upravlenie Geodezii i Kartographii USSR (GUGK) = Main Department of Geodezy and Cartography of USSR, Novosibirsk, 170 pp
Further details:
Project(s):
Permafrost Research (Periglacial Dynamics) @ AWI (AWI_PerDyn)
Coverage:
Latitude: 63.000000 * Longitude: 125.500000
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Comment:
The vector files were obtained by digitizing the natural complexes and terrain types for a subset of the scanned and georeferenced image of the original Russian Map (Fedorov et al., 1989). The map „Permafrost landscape of Yakutia" describes physio-geographical characteristics of Yakutia. The map was georeferenced in ArcGIS based using map coordinates.
A subset of the map was vectorized with an extent of: WGS84, upper left corner: lat 65, long 117.55, lower right corner: lat 61.05, long 131.05. Following components of the map were vectorized: Natural complexes and terrain types. The attribute field terrain_typ in the terrain_type_wgs84utm52n.shp and veg_type in the natural_complex_wgs84utm52n.shp show the classes as identified from the original map.
The original Russian map legend (Yakutien_permafrost_landscape_legend1_russian.jpg and Yakutien_permafrost_landscape_legend_1_russian.jpg) was translated to English by Christine Siegert. The English legend provides the text (legend_permafrost_landscape_1_english.pdf and legend_permafrost_landscape_2_english.pdf). For signatures and numbers, please refer to the original Russian legends.
The construction of the map is described in the file landscape_map_principles_english.pdf
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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