Surface type classifications from helicopter-borne imagery during a flight PS122/5_61-63 on 2020-09-08

• Main Authors: Sperzel, Tim R, Jäkel, Evelyn, Lampert, Astrid, Birnbaum, Gerit, Pätzold, Falk, Neckel, Niklas, Rosenburg, Sophie, Fuchs, Niels, Wendisch, Manfred
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: AC3; ALTITUDE; Arctic Amplification; Arctic Ocean; Arctic Surface Types; Bare ice; fraction; Bright melt pond; Dark melt pond; DATE/TIME; Digital camera; Canon [fisheye lens]; followed by Classification based on pixel-wize detection of RGB-values; HELI; Helicopter; HELiPOD; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; MOSAiC; MOSAiC20192020; MOSAiC expedition; Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate; Open water; Pitch angle; Polarstern; PS122/5; PS122/5_61-63; Roll angle; White ice/snow; Yaw angle; Arctic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.959440; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.959440

Data include area fractions of sea ice surface types (white ice/snow, bright melt ponds, dark melt ponds, open water, bare ice) obtained from aerial imagery during 29 research flights that were performed within the scope of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) experiment from May 2020 until end of September 2020. The images were taken every four seconds by fisheye lens cameras (Canon EOS digital) installed on a helicopter or HELiPOD, a towed survey probe. The data set provides additional information about the attitude and geographic location of the helicopter/HELiPOD. Only images that passed the quality checks were included.