Geomorphic mapping and UAV lidar of debris flow fans in southwestern British Columbia, Canada

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The data consists of geomorphic fan mapping completed at 29 debris flow fans in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, and uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) lidar at three of these fans. This dataset was used to study the spatial record of debris-flow impacts on fans for hazard and risk assessments. The fan mapping geodatabase contains fan boundaries, fan apexes, watershed boundaries, impact areas (any area below the fan apex that has been overrun by a debris flow since the last observation record), and flow paths (the channel or main flow path associated with an impact area). Fan mapping was completed using orthorectified airphotos, satellite imagery, topographic base maps, lidar data, orthophotos, and field observations. UAV lidar was collected at three of the 29 fans in the fall of 2019 for the purposes of geomorphic mapping and change detection analysis. One of the fans is located near Mt. Currie (Currie D) and two are located near Lillooet (Fountain N, Fountain S). Lidar for Currie D was flown on October 1 and 2, 2019, and has an average point density of 6.7 points per square meter, an average point spacing of 0.38 meters, and covers and area of 0.5 square kilometers. Lidar for Fountain N was flown on October 23, 2019, and has an average point density of 8.1 points per square meter, an average point spacing of 0.35 meters, and covers and area of 0.95 square kilometers. Lidar for Fountain S was flown on September 18-19, 2019, and has an average point density of 8.1 points per square meter, an average point spacing of 0.35 meters, and covers and area of 0.44 square kilometers. The lidar is provided as classified point clouds (LAS files), NAD83 / UTM zone 10N.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932864
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5184
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.932864
Provenance
Creator Zubrycky, Sophia ORCID logo; Mitchell, Andrew ORCID logo; McDougall, Scott ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Funding Reference Canada Foundation for Innovation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000196 Crossref Funder ID 22R12701 https://ipo.ubc.ca/cfi-funds/overview CFI/BCKDF; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000038 Crossref Funder ID 5653 https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/students-etudiants/pg-cs/cgsm-bescm_eng.asp NSERC - CGSM
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 4 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-124.970 LON, 55.030 LAT)