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Use of Geobotanical Maps and Automated Mapping Techniques to Examine Cumulative Impacts in the Prudhoe Bay Oilfield, Alaska

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Donald A. Walker ,
Patrick J. Webber ,
Marilyn D. Walker ,
Nancy D. Lederer ,
Rosa H. Meehan  and
Earl A. Nordstrand
Donald A. Walker
Affiliation:
Research Associate, Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309
Patrick J. Webber
Affiliation:
Professor, Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research and Department of Environmental, Population & Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309
Marilyn D. Walker
Affiliation:
Graduate Research Assistant, Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research and Department of Environmental, Population & Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309
Nancy D. Lederer
Affiliation:
Professional Research Assistant, Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309
Rosa H. Meehan
Affiliation:
Graduate Research Assistant, Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research and Department of Environmental, Population & Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309; also U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Special Studies, 1011 E. Tudor Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99503
Earl A. Nordstrand
Affiliation:
North Slope Borough GIS, 508 W. 2nd Street, Room 310, Anchorage, Alaska 99501, USA.
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A comprehensive approach to the problem of examining impacts on tundra landscapes is presented, using the Prudhoe Bay oilfield as a model. Development of the oilfield is documented, utilizing a series of ‘historical’ disturbance maps for the period 1949–83. Cumulative development of the entire field was mapped at a scale of 1:24,000, and an intensely developed portion of the field was mapped at 1:6,000, using an integrated geobotanical and historical disturbance map (IGHDM). The IGHDM data were automated, and a series of maps was made which depict a variety of information—including geobotany of the area as of 1949, and the historical sequence of development from 1968 to 1983.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Summer 1986 , pp. 149 - 160
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1986

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