Publication information

Geological Survey of Canada
Open File 7720

Icings in the Great Slave Region (1985–2014), Northwest Territories, Mapped from Landsat Imagery

P.D. Morse and S.A. Wolfe

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources Canada, 2014

doi:10.4095/295540

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Recommended citation

Morse, P.D. and Wolfe, S.A., 2014. Icings in the Great Slave Region (1985–2014), Northwest Territories, Mapped from Landsat Imagery; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7720, 1 .zip file. doi:10.4095/295540

Contents

Open File 7720 contains the report and georeferenced digital data.

Directory structure

\		-Open File and Documentation in Hypertext RTF format.
Contains the Open File (OF_7720.pdf)
English version of the readme file (readme_OF_7720.rtf)

\data		- Data files designed for GIS analysis and querying

   \shp		- Directory for ESRI® ArcGIS™ shapefile format 	files			
       		(GSR_Icings_1985to2014_OF_7720.shp)

\meta		- Directory for metadata documentation
(GSR_Icings_1985to2014_FGDC_Metadata_OF_7720.xml)

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System requirements

PC with 486 or greater processor, or Mac® with OS® X v. 10.2.2 or later; Adobe® Reader® v. 6.0 or later; ESRI® ArcGIS™ v.9.0 or later; video resolution of 1280 x 1024.

Projection Description

Projection: Transverse Mercator
False Easting: 500000.000000
False Northing: 0.000000
Central Meridian: -117.000000
Scale Factor: 0.999600
Latitude of Origin: 0.000000
Linear Unit: Meter (1.000000)

Geographic Coordinate System: GCS WGS 1984
Angular Unit: Degree (0.000000002220024164500956)
Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.000000)
Datum: WGS 1984
  Spheroid: WGS 1984
    Semimajor Axis: 6378137.000000
    Inverse Flattening: 298.257223563

Author contact information

Dr. Peter D. Morse (pmorse@NRCan.gc.ca)
Geological Survey of Canada
601 Booth Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0E9

Availability information

This publication is available for free download through GEOSCAN (http://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/).