Barrow Area Information Database

The Barrow Area Information Database provides local information and data for Alaska’s North Slope region.

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About Barrow Area Information Database

The Barrow Area Information Database provides local information and data for the Barrow area of Alaska's North Slope region. It includes research sites, observation platforms and instruments, vegetation plots, historical imagery, and coastal erosion surveys. It provides viewers for research sites, historical imagery, coastal change, and community planning and permitting. The Community Planning Tool report function is currently not supported, with a new release noted for 2026, and BAID IMS and BAID in Google Earth have been discontinued.

Key features

  • Research Sites Viewer showing who, where, and what of research
  • Imagery Time Viewer for viewing historical imagery of Barrow
  • Coastal Erosion Viewer to explore coastal change over time
  • Community Planning Tool for planning and permitting reference
  • Location-based inventory of observation platforms and instruments
  • Basic viewer version optimized for slower connections and mobile devices
Best for: Researchers and community planners working with Barrow and North Slope data.
Good for
  • Includes more than 18,200 data collection sites dating to 1947
  • Lists more than 1,500 instruments and more than 3,000 vegetation plots
  • Provides a basic viewer optimized for slower connections and mobile devices
Watch out for
  • Community Planning Tool report function is no longer supported pending 2026 release
  • BAID IMS and BAID in Google Earth have been discontinued

Barrow Area Information Database at a glance

Official website
barrowmapped.org
Type
Dataset
Platforms
Web
Language
English
Last checked
Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
Listed
Oct 5, 2026

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