Geospatial data needed to map groundwater recharge areas in high latitude landscapes.

This project consists of 11 files: 1) a zipped folder with a geodatabase containing seven raster files and two shapefiles, 2) a zipped folder containing the same layers found in the geodatabase, but as standalone files, 3) 9 .xml files containing the metadata for the spatial datasets in the zipped folders. These datasets were generated in ArcPro 3.0.3. (ESRI). Six raster files (drainaged, geology, nlcd, precipitation, slope, solitexture) present spatially distributed information, ranked according to the relative importance of each class for groundwater recharge. The scale used for these datasets is 1-9, where low scale values are assigned to datasets with low relative importance for groundwater recharge, while high scale values are assigned to datasets with high relative importance for groundwater recharge. The seventh raster file contains the groundwater recharge potential map for the Anchor River Watershed. This map was calculated using the six raster datasets mentioned previously. Here, the values assigned represent Very Low to Very High groundwater recharge potential (scale 1 - 5, 1 being Very Low and 5 being Very High). Finally, the two shapefiles represent the groundwater wells and the polygons used for model validation. This data is part of the manuscript titled: Mapping Groundwater Recharge Potential in High Latitude Landscapes using Public Data, Remote Sensing, and Analytic Hierarchy Process, published in the journal remote sensing.