Barrow Area Remote Sensing - Brw Be Treatment Areas

Modeled treatment areas within the Barrow Biocomplexity study area. Data were derived using the Digital Elevation Model derived for the study area from airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data in the Arc Hydro extension to ArgGIS 9.2. Treatment areas were defined from the catchment area of the thaw lake basin and the location of the dikes that were installed to separate the basin in to the different treatment areas. The northern treatment area became the flooded treatment, the central area the drained treatment area and the southern treatment the control area.