Multispectral Orthomosaic Image for the Swan Lake Drained Lake Basin (MP64) Beaver Dams, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 02 August 2023 ...

• Main Authors: Jones, Benjamin, Tape, Kenneth
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2023
• Subjects: arctic; beavers; alaska; tundra; pond; stream; thermokarst; drone; Arctic; Beaver Ponds; Emergence of beavers as ecosystem engineers in the New Arctic; permafrost; Seward Peninsula; Thermokarst; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2h12v896; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2H12V896

Emergence of beavers as ecosystem engineers in the New Arctic project focuses on establishing field sites at tundra beaver ponds to study the implications of beaver engineering on hydrology and permafrost. Drones are being used to collect baseline data and track beaver dam building and pond evolution over time. This dataset consists of a multispectral orthomosaic derived from drone surveys on 02 August 2023 at the Swan Lake Drained Lake Basin, MP64, site on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. 2286 digital images from five spectral bands were acquired from a DJI Phantom 4 Real-Time Kinematic (DJI P4RTK) quadcopter with a DJI D-RTK 2 Mobile Base Station. The mapped area was around 27 hectares (ha). The drone system was flown at 120 meters (m) above ground level (agl) and images were captured using the hover and capture at point mode. The orientation of the camera was set to 90 degrees (i.e. looking straight down). The along-track overlap and across-track overlap of the mission were set at 80% and 70%, respectively. ...