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SCAR King George Island GIS Digital Elevation Models

Entry ID: SCAR_KGIS_dem

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Summary

Abstract: Elevation data (digital elevation models) at various resolutions for King
George Island, Antarctica and for selected areas on King George Islands,
Antarctica. The data set was compiled for Scientific Committee on Antarctic
Research's King George Island GIS (SCAR KGIS) project.

Description: OGC WMS service for SCAR KGIS data

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

	N: -61.89	S: -62.27	E: -57.63	W: -59.04
Min Altitude: 0 Max Altitude: 750

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Steffen Vogt for the SCAR KGIS project

Dataset Title: SCAR KGIS digital elevation models data

Dataset Release Date: 2004-04-01

Dataset Release Place: Freiburg, Germany

Dataset Publisher: SCAR / IPG Uni Freiburg

Version: 1.0

Data Presentation Form: digital (ESRI GRID files)

Online Resource: http://www.kgis.scar.org/

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2004-04-01

Stop Date: 2004-04-01

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > KING GEORGE ISLAND

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION

ISO Topic Category

ELEVATION

Project

SCAR_KGIS > SCAR King George Island GIS Project

Access Constraints None

Use Constraints Data may not be used for commercial applications without explicit written
permission from SCAR.

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

FREIBURG/IPG

Data Center

Institut fur Physische Geographie, Universitat Freiburg

Data Center URL: http://www.geographie.uni-freiburg.de/ipg/

Data Center Personnel
Name: STEFFEN VOGT Phone: +49 (0)761 203 3553 Phone: +49 (0)761 203 3526 Fax: +49 (0)761 203 3596 Email: steffen.vogt at geographie.uni-freiburg.de Contact Address: Institut f. Physische Geographie Werderring 4 City: Freiburg Postal Code: 79085 Country: Germany

Distribution

Distribution Media: electronic

Distribution Format: ESRI GRID files

Fees: free for non-commercial use

Personnel

STEFFEN VOGT

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: +49 (0)761 203 3553

Phone: +49 (0)761 203 3526

Fax: +49 (0)761 203 3596

Email: steffen.vogt at geographie.uni-freiburg.de

Contact Address:

Institut f. Physische Geographie

Werderring 4

City: Freiburg

Postal Code: 79085

Country: Germany

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2004-07-15

Last DIF Revision Date: 2006-04-20

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