Aerial imagery datasets of permafrost landscapes in Alaska and northwestern Canada acquired by the Modular Aerial Camera System

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During three airborne campaigns conducted between 2018 and 2021 and led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, we collected super-high-resolution multispectral imagery of permafrost landscapes using the Modular Aerial Camera System (MACS) developed by the German Aerospace Center. The images, covering regions in northwestern Canada and Alaska, were processed into four-band orthophotos, digital surface models, and photogrammetric point clouds with spatial resolutions ranging from 7 to 20 cm. This dataset offers unprecedented insights into transitioning permafrost environments as it provides an essential resource for generating detailed training data, establishing baselines for detecting changes related to thermokarst and thermo-erosion processes, and facilitating the translation of field measurements to satellite observations with lower resolutions.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.961577
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-193
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.961577
Provenance
Creator Rettelbach, Tabea ORCID logo; Nitze, Ingmar ORCID logo; Grünberg, Inge ORCID logo; Hammar, Jennika; Schäffler, Simon; Hein, Daniel; Gessner, Matthias; Bucher, Tilman; Brauchle, Jörg ORCID logo; Hartmann, Jörg ORCID logo; Sachs, Torsten ORCID logo; Boike, Julia ORCID logo; Grosse, Guido ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Bibliography of Datasets; Collection
Size 35 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-162.597W, 66.892S, -133.500E, 71.287N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-08-15T18:50:16Z
Temporal Coverage End 2021-07-11T02:47:38Z