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Description
UAV-derived DSMs and orthoimages
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys were conducted between 2015 and 2016 on the Sankt Annafirn, Findelen- and Griesgletscher, situated in the Swiss Alps. Three surveys at the Sankt Annafirn allowed for a full glacier coverage, four surveys at Griesgletscher allowed an almost full glacier coverage and seven surveys at Findelengletscher allowed for a partial coverage of the glacier tongue (see individual datasets for exact extent). For each survey, a high resolution orthoimage and a Digital Surface Model (DSM) was created.
UAV surveys:
Prior flight, Ground Control Points (GCPs) were deployed on the glacier surface and measured with a differential GPS (Trimble R7 or Leica GPS 1200). They allowed precise georeferencing of the UAV-derived datasets. UAV flight plans were planned with the software eMotion 2 and a SenseFly eBee was used as surveying platform. The images were then processed with the software Agisoft Photoscan Pro 1.1.6 .
The location and dates of each survey can be found in the table together with the number of flights performed (Nflights), the number of acquired images (Nimages), the number of GCPs set (NGCPs) and the surveyed area.
A folder for each dataset is available (see folder name in table), which contains:
An orthoimage glacier_date_photoscan_oi_CH1903+_LV95_0.1m.tif
A Digital Surface Model glacier_date_photoscan_dsm_CH1903+_LV95_0.1m.tif
The Agisoft Photoscan automatic processing report glacier_date_photoscan_report.pdf
where:
glacier is the name of the surveyed glacier
date is the date of the UAV image acquisition
photoscan is the name of the photogrammetric software
oi or dsm the type of dataset
CH1903+_LV95 is the coordinate system and datum of the dataset
0.1m is the resolution of the dataset in meter
.tif is the extention of the dataset
Details about the UAV surveys, the image processing and the accuracy of the UAV-derived products can be found in this publication below.
Paper Citation:
Gindraux et al. 2017. Accuracy Assessment of Digital Surface Models from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’Imagery on Glaciers, Remote Sensing, 9, 186, 1-15, doi: 10.3390/rs9020186.
The folder UAV_flight_paths.zip contains all UAV flights performed on the Sankt Annafirn, Findelengletscher and Griesgletscher. The flights were planned with the software eMotion2 and have the .afp extention.
Resources
- ZIP stanna_20150928
- ZIP stanna_20150715
- ZIP stanna_20150415
- ZIP gries_20160913
- ZIP gries_20160815
- ZIP gries_20150926
- ZIP gries_20150803
- ZIP findelen_20160922
- ZIP findelen_20160830
- ZIP findelen_20160702
- ZIP findelen_20160419
- ZIP findelen_20150920
- ZIP findelen_20150721
- ZIP findelen_20150409
- PDF datasets_overview
- ZIP UAV_flight_paths
- SERVICE Bulk Data Access
Additional information
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- ce722112-0768-4f79-a65b-3409af2a62e8@envidat
- Issued date
- July 18, 2018
- Modified date
- December 14, 2020
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- EnviDat
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- https://www.envidat.ch/#/metadata/uav-datasets-for-three-alpine-glaciers
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