-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1.) GENERAL DATASET INFORMATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 25km DATA FORMAT: Binary SPATIAL PROJECTION: a global EASE-Grid (Version 1) format (1383 columns and 586 rows consisting of 16-bit integer) TEMPORAL EXTENT: 1979 - 2009 SPATIAL EXTENT: Global -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2.) EASE-Grid format information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://nsidc.org/data/ease/ease_grid.html http://nsidc.org/data/ease/geolocate/index.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (3.) MAIN REFERENCES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- H. Park, Y. Kim, and J. S. Kimball (2016) “Widespread permafrost vulnerability and soil active layer increases over the high northern latitudes inferred from satellite remote sensing and process model assessments” Remote Sensing of Environment, 175, 349-358 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------