Pond Area Estimates: Nine Study Regions in Alaska for 3 time periods (1950s, 1978-1982, 1999-2001) using remotely sensed images

The data are ArcGIS shapefiles by USGS quadrangle within 9 study regions: Arctic Coastal Plain, Stevens Village area, Yukon Flats, Minto Flats, Denali Flats, Talkeetna, Innoko Flats, Tetlin Flats, and Copper River Basin. Each shapefile polygon represents the shoreline of a pond as visually interpreted from each georectified remotely sensed image. All images were rectified based on at least 25 control points from 1:63 360 USGS digital raster graphics topographic maps using a second-order polynomial with a RMS error of less than one satellite image pixel (30 meters). All closed-basin ponds greater than 0.2 hectares were visually delineated and manually traced as polygons using ArcGIS. Each pond polygon has an ID and Hectares field representing the pond ID and area in hectares for the time period of the remotely sensed image.