L0 Data from the 2018 NGEE Arctic LiDAR and Imagery Unoccupied Aerial System Campaign at the Teller 47 Field Site, Seward Peninsula, Alaska

• Main Authors: Collins, Adam, Andresen, Christian, Dann, Julian, Lathrop, Emma, Swanson, Erika
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: 54 Environmental Sciences; Arctic; Barrow; Nome; Seward Peninsula; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1671794; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1671794; https://doi.org/10.5440/1671794

Airborne remote sensing data collected from Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) heavy-lift unoccupied aerial system (UAS) hexacopter platform operated by NGEE Arctic scientists from EES-14 (Earth System Observations group) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. These data were collected in July 2018 at a field site near mile marker 47 along the Teller road between Nome, Alaska and Teller, Alaska. A DJI Matrice 600 Pro Airframe and Routescene UAV LiDARSystem was used to collect LiDAR data, and DJI Phantom 4 Advanced was used to collect optical red/green/blue (RGB) imagery at regular intervals along 11 flight paths. This data package contains unprocessed data products (processing level 0) including flight paths, raw photos, and raw lidar data files (*.kml, *.jpg, and *.lpd formats). Ancillary aircraft data, flight mission parameters, and general flight conditions are also included (see Supplemental Files, *.rinex, and *.rtcm3 files). The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments: Arctic (NGEE Arctic), a research effort to reduce uncertainty in Earth System Models by developing apredictiveunderstanding ofcarbon-richArcticecosystemsandfeedbackstoclimate. NGEEArcticwas supportedbytheDepartmentofEnergy’s OfficeofBiologicalandEnvironmentalResearch. The NGEE Arctic project had two field research sites: 1) located within the Arcticpolygonal tundra coastal region on the Barrow Environmental Observatory (BEO) and theNorth Slope near Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska and 2) multiple areas on the discontinuouspermafrostregion of theSewardPeninsula north ofNome,Alaska. Through observations, experiments, and synthesis with existing datasets, NGEE Arcticprovided an enhanced knowledge base for multi-scale modeling and contributed toimproved process representation at global pan-Arctic scales within the Department ofEnergy’s Earth system Model (the Energy Exascale Earth System Model, or E3SM), and specifically withintheE3SMLand Modelcomponent(ELM).