Digital elevation model and orthophotographs of Greenland based on aerial photographs from 1978–1987
Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) play a prominent role in glaciological studies for the mass balance of glaciers and ice sheets. By providing a time snapshot of glacier geometry, DEMs are crucial for most glacier evolution modelling studies, but are also important for cryospheric modelling in general...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:4862325 2023-05-15T16:21:05+02:00 Digital elevation model and orthophotographs of Greenland based on aerial photographs from 1978–1987 Korsgaard, Niels J. Nuth, Christopher Khan, Shfaqat A. Kjeldsen, Kristian K. Bjørk, Anders A. Schomacker, Anders Kjær, Kurt H. 2016-05-10 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4862325/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27164457 https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.32 en eng Nature Publishing Group http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4862325/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27164457 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.32 Copyright © 2016, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Data Descriptor Text 2016 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.32 2016-06-12T00:02:21Z Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) play a prominent role in glaciological studies for the mass balance of glaciers and ice sheets. By providing a time snapshot of glacier geometry, DEMs are crucial for most glacier evolution modelling studies, but are also important for cryospheric modelling in general. We present a historical medium-resolution DEM and orthophotographs that consistently cover the entire surroundings and margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet 1978–1987. About 3,500 aerial photographs of Greenland are combined with field surveyed geodetic ground control to produce a 25 m gridded DEM and a 2 m black-and-white digital orthophotograph. Supporting data consist of a reliability mask and a photo footprint coverage with recording dates. Through one internal and two external validation tests, this DEM shows an accuracy better than 10 m horizontally and 6 m vertically while the precision is better than 4 m. This dataset proved successful for topographical mapping and geodetic mass balance. Other uses include control and calibration of remotely sensed data such as imagery or InSAR velocity maps. Text glacier Greenland Ice Sheet PubMed Central (PMC) Greenland Scientific Data 3 1 |
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Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) play a prominent role in glaciological studies for the mass balance of glaciers and ice sheets. By providing a time snapshot of glacier geometry, DEMs are crucial for most glacier evolution modelling studies, but are also important for cryospheric modelling in general. We present a historical medium-resolution DEM and orthophotographs that consistently cover the entire surroundings and margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet 1978–1987. About 3,500 aerial photographs of Greenland are combined with field surveyed geodetic ground control to produce a 25 m gridded DEM and a 2 m black-and-white digital orthophotograph. Supporting data consist of a reliability mask and a photo footprint coverage with recording dates. Through one internal and two external validation tests, this DEM shows an accuracy better than 10 m horizontally and 6 m vertically while the precision is better than 4 m. This dataset proved successful for topographical mapping and geodetic mass balance. Other uses include control and calibration of remotely sensed data such as imagery or InSAR velocity maps. |
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Digital elevation model and orthophotographs of Greenland based on aerial photographs from 1978–1987 |
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Digital elevation model and orthophotographs of Greenland based on aerial photographs from 1978–1987 |
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Digital elevation model and orthophotographs of Greenland based on aerial photographs from 1978–1987 |
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