Aerial data from drone surveys of coastal habitats on the West Antarctic Peninsula during austral summer (January–March 2020 and February–March 2019) ...

• Main Authors: Pallin, Logan, Larsen, Gregory D., Groff, Dulcinea, Tuohy, Chelsea, Simms, Alex, Ciminio, Megan, Goerke, Marissa, Friedlaender, Ari S., Falvo, Cristiana, Johnston, David W., Nichols, Ross C.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Duke Research Data Repository 2022
• Subjects: Antarctica; Imagery; Unoccupied Aircraft Systems; UAS; Landcover; Mapping; Drone aircraft; West Antarctic Peninsula; Aerial survey; Drone aircraft in remote sensing; Orthomosaics; Digital elevation models; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Joubin; Joubin Islands; Palmer Station; Palmer-Station; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7924/r4sf2xs2w; https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4sf2xs2w

Aerial data from drone surveys of coastal habitats on the West Antarctic Peninsula during January–March 2020 and February–March 2019. Regions include islands and exposed coastlines near Palmer Station (64°46′S 64°03′W) and two locations in the adjacent Joubin Islands (64°47′S 64°27′W). Data were collected using a Phantom 4 Pro with stock camera (2020) or a LemHex-44 custom hexacopter with a Sony A5100 24-megapixel CMOS mirrorless camera with a 50 mm focal length lens. Imagery was collected in color without spectral calibration at ground sample distances of ~1.5–3 cm/pixel. The repository contains all raw imagery collected from drone flights and photogrammetric products generated using Pix4D Mapper software: orthomosaics and digital surface models. Auxiliary data include example flight plans used to collect drone data at each site and ground control points used to ground truth, validate and process imagery with differentially corrected global positioning at three sites. Imagery was collected at 2–3 ...