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Orthomosaic of permafrost landscape on Qikiqtaruk - Hershel Island, Yukon, Canada (August 2017)

This red-green-blue (RGB) orthomosaic is composite created from 8994 photographs collected withunmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the eastern part of Qikiqtaruk, Herschel Island, in the Canadian Yukon (69.5N, 138.8W). The images were collected on the 10th and 11th of August 2017. Further details on the image processing are provided in the Lineage section. This dataset was created by Andrew Cunliffe, with support from Isla Myers-Smith, William Palmer, Jeffrey Kerby and other members of Team Shrub (https://teamshrub.com/), in order to inform ongoing ecological monitoring studies in this area. Part of this orthomosaic was used for a study into permafrost coastline retreat, published in The Cryosphere (Cunliffe, A. M., Tanski, G., Radosavljevic, B., Palmer, W. F., Sachs, T., Lantuit, H., Kerby, J. T., and Myers-Smith, I. H.: Rapid retreat of permafrost coastline observed with aerial drone photogrammetry, The Cryosphere, 13, 1513-1528, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1513-2019, 2019).

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Alternate title
Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01151
Date (Publication)
2019-05-30
Identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01151
Custodian
  British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Originator
  Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey, NERC, Cambridge, UK. - Cunliffe, A., Myers-Smith, I., Kerby, J., Palmer, W.
High Cross, Madingley , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown Unknown
Keywords
  • NDGO0001
NERC OAI Harvesting
  • NERC_DDC
GCMD Parameter Valids
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Frozen Ground > Permafrost
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Frozen Ground > Permafrost
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Landscape
BAS Free-text keywords
  • Arctic
  • Coastline
  • Landscape
  • Permafrost
Use limitation

This data is covered by a UK Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/). Further by downloading this data the user acknowledges that they agree with the NERC data policy (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy.asp), and the following conditions:

1. To cite both the data and literature references in any publications that use this data.

DATA REFERENCE:

Andrew M. Cunliffe, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Jeffrey T. Kerby and William F. Palmer.(2019):Orthomosaic of permafrost landscape on Qikiqtaruk - Hershel Island, Yukon, Canada (August 2017). UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation.

LITERATURE REFERENCE:

A. Cunliffe*, G. Tanski*, B. Radosavljevic, W. Palmer, T. Sachs, H. Lantuit, J. Kerby, and I. Myers-Smith (2019) Accelerating retreat of permafrost coastline observed by combining long-term observations with aerial drone surveys. The Cryosphere. 13(5):1513-1528. doi:10.5194/tc-13-1513-2019

2. The user recognizes the limitations of data and will not use this data for navigation purposes. Use of the data is at the users'' own risk, and there is no warranty as to the quality or accuracy of any data, or the fitness of the data for your intended use. The data are not necessarily fully quality assured and cannot be expected to be free from measurement uncertainty, systematic biases, or errors of interpretation or analysis, and may include inaccuracies in error margins quoted with the data.

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Other constraints

This data is covered by a UK Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/). Further by downloading this data the user acknowledges that they agree with the NERC data policy (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy.asp), and the following conditions:

1. To cite both the data and literature references in any publications that use this data.

DATA REFERENCE:

Andrew M. Cunliffe, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Jeffrey T. Kerby and William F. Palmer.(2019):Orthomosaic of permafrost landscape on Qikiqtaruk - Hershel Island, Yukon, Canada (August 2017). UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation.

LITERATURE REFERENCE:

A. Cunliffe*, G. Tanski*, B. Radosavljevic, W. Palmer, T. Sachs, H. Lantuit, J. Kerby, and I. Myers-Smith (2019) Accelerating retreat of permafrost coastline observed by combining long-term observations with aerial drone surveys. The Cryosphere. 13(5):1513-1528. doi:10.5194/tc-13-1513-2019

2. The user recognizes the limitations of data and will not use this data for navigation purposes. Use of the data is at the users'' own risk, and there is no warranty as to the quality or accuracy of any data, or the fitness of the data for your intended use. The data are not necessarily fully quality assured and cannot be expected to be free from measurement uncertainty, systematic biases, or errors of interpretation or analysis, and may include inaccuracies in error margins quoted with the data.

Metadata language
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Topic category
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Begin date
2017-08-10
End date
2017-08-11
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
Distributor
  Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
OnLine resource
https://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=29bf1c9f-a39a-452c-b9f9-de35d9fb9179
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dataset Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification
INSPIRE / Conformity_001

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Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No
Statement
There are some small missing areas within the orthomosaic, due to insufficient image overlap of these areas (nodata is indicated by value of 255 in the Red, Green and Blue bands). Some artefacts (distortion) in the orthomosaic are expected around the periphery of the survey area, particularly where (reflective or moving) water is present.
File identifier
GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01151 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2019-05-30
Metadata standard name
NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
Dataset URI
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01151
 
 

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