Orthomosaic of Samoylov Island (south), Siberia, Spring 2015 ...

• Main Authors: Schennen, Stephan, Schwamborn, Georg, Zubrzycki, Sebastian, Bornemann, Niko
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2016
• Subjects: Aerial Photographs; Arctic Tundra; island; snow; Snow cover; File content; File name; File format; File size; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Multiple investigations; Formation, turnover and release of carbon in Siberian permafrost landscapes CARBOPERM; Permafrost Research Periglacial Dynamics @ AWI AWI_PerDyn; permafrost; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.860080; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.860080

We acquired more than 700 aerial images of snow covered polygonal tundra at the southern part of Samoylov on April 11, 2015. The images were obtained with a compact camera (Canon Powershot A1500) that was part of a kite aerial photography (KAP) system.Mosaicing was performed in Agisoft PhotoScan. The result was georeferenced in QGIS taking into account Boike et al. (2012) and 47 virtual ground control points. ...