SiDroForest: Orthomosaics, SfM point clouds and products from aerial image data of expedition vegetation plots in 2018 in Central Yakutia and Chukotka, Siberia

DOI

This orthomosaics and Structure from Motion (SfM) point clouds dataset is a part of the SiDroForest data collection (van Geffen et al., 2021). The aim of SiDroForest is to gain a clear picture of the current vegetation dynamics in the pan-arctic region of Siberia. The dataset presented here contains orthomosaics and structure from motion (SfM) point clouds and point cloud products for plots visited in Siberia during a 2-month fieldwork expedition in 2018 by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Germany (Kruse et al., 2019).During the fieldwork, 53 vegetation plots were covered by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flights and Red Green Blue (RGB) photographs were taken with a consumer grade DJI Phantom 4 quadcopter and MAPIR Survey3W RGNIR camera with a standardized flight plan (double-gridded in near-nadir position and circular facing the plot center at take-off elevation) on a 50 x 50 m area (further details in Kruse et al., 2019, Brieger et al., 2019).From these UAV images, SfM point clouds and orthoimages were constructed. The UAV data and the products that were constructed are described below.Data CollectionBecause of the availability of multiple overlapping images from different camera viewpoints, point cloud processing and generation of 3-dimensional (3D) products and successive generation of orthoimages were possible. We manually rejected images that have been taken during take-off and landing, and blurry, under- or overexposed images from further processing. The remaining images were then used to generate the 3D point cloud and related products directly from the point cloud data.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.933263
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4967-2022
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.902259
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0734_2019
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.933263
Provenance
Creator Kruse, Stefan ORCID logo; Farkas, Luca; Brieger, Frederic ORCID logo; Geng, Rongwei ORCID logo; Heim, Birgit ORCID logo; Pestryakova, Luidmila A ORCID logo; Zakharov, Evgenii S; Herzschuh, Ulrike ORCID logo; van Geffen, Femke ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 34 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (112.959W, 59.971S, 168.711E, 68.468N); Chukotka; Central Yakutia
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-07-04T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z