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Aerial imagery from UAS survey of the intertidal zone at Puget Creek and Dickman Mill Park, Tacoma, WA, 2019-06-03

This portion of the data release presents the raw aerial imagery collected during an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) survey of the intertidal zone at Puget Creek and Dickman Mill Park, Tacoma, WA, on 2019-06-03. The imagery was acquired using a Department of Interior-owned 3DR Solo quadcopter fitted with a Ricoh GR II digital camera featuring a global shutter. The camera was mounted using a fixed mount on the bottom of the UAS and oriented in an approximately nadir orientation. The UAS was flown on pre-programmed autonomous flight lines at an approximate altitude of 50 meters above ground level (AGL), resulting in a nominal ground-sample-distance (GSD) of 1.3 centimeters per pixel. The flight lines were oriented roughly shore-parallel and were spaced to provide approximately 70 percent overlap between images from adjacent lines. The camera was triggered at 1 Hz using a built-in intervalometer. Flight F01 covered the Puget Creek area; flight F02 covered the Dickman Mill Park area. After acquisition, the images were renamed to include the flight number and acquisition time in the file name. The coordinates of the approximate image acquisition locations were added ('geotagged') to the image metadata (EXIF) using the telemetry log from the UAS onboard single-frequency autonomous GPS. The image EXIF were also updated to include additional information related to the acquisition. Although the images were recorded in both JPG and camera raw (Adobe DNG) formats, only the JPG images are provided in this data release. The data release includes a total of 1,171 JPG images. Images from takeoff and landing sequences were not used for processing and have been omitted from the data release. The images from each flight are provided in a zip file named with the flight number.

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Author(s) Joshua Logan orcid, Eric Grossman orcid, Nathan R Vanarendonk orcid, Liam Horner orcid
Publication Date 2021-02-22
Beginning Date of Data 2019-06-03
Ending Date of Data 2019-06-03
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9TJALC1
Citation Logan, J., Grossman, E., Vanarendonk, N.R., and Horner, L., 2021, Aerial imagery from UAS survey of the intertidal zone at Puget Creek and Dickman Mill Park, Tacoma, WA, 2019-06-03: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9TJALC1.
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Metadata Date 2021-02-22
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Harvest Date: 2025-01-07T07:20:07.907Z