Active rock glaciers of the contiguous United States: geographic information system inventory and spatial distribution patterns

Johnson, Gunnar; Chang, Heejun; Fountain, Andrew

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3979-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3979-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3979-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

Data description paper

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17 Aug 2021

Data description paper |

| 17 Aug 2021

Active rock glaciers of the contiguous United States: geographic information system inventory and spatial distribution patterns

Gunnar Johnson, Heejun Chang, and Andrew Fountain

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3979-2021-supplement

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Portland State University Active Rock Glacier Inventory Gunnar Johnson https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.918585

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We present the Portland State University Active Rock Glacier Inventory (n = 10 343) for the contiguous United States, derived from manual classification of remote sensing imagery. This geospatial inventory will allow past rock glacier research findings to be spatially extrapolated, facilitating rock glacier research by identifying field study sites and serving as a valuable training set for the development of automated rock glacier identification methods applicable to other regional studies.