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ABoVE: AirSWOT Color-Infrared Imagery Over Alaska and Canada, 2017

Metadata Updated: February 20, 2026

This dataset contains georeferenced three-band orthomosaics of green, red, and near-infrared (NIR) digital imagery at 1m resolution collected over selected surface waters across Alaska and Canada between July 9 and August 17, 2017. The orthomosaics were generated from individual images collected by a Cirrus Designs Digital Camera System (DCS) mounted on a Beechcraft Super King Air B200 aircraft from approximately 8-11 km altitude. Flights were over the following areas: Saskatchewan River, Saskatoon, Inuvik, Yukon River including Yukon Flats, Sagavanirktok River, Arctic Coastal Plain, Old Crow Flats, Peace-Athabasca Delta, Slave River, Athabasca River, Yellowknife, Great Slave Lake, Mackenzie River and Delta, Daring Lake, and other selected locations. Most locations were imaged twice during two flight campaigns in Canada and Alaska extending roughly SE-NW then NW-SE up to a month apart. The data were georeferenced using 303 ground control points (GCPs) across the study region.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 20, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 20, 2026
Publisher ORNL_DAAC
Maintainer
Identifier 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1643
Data Last Modified 2026-02-17
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 69075ddf-8130-4d18-a67d-022e5cae1a44
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=ABoVE_Open_Water_Map_1643&ac=true
Old Spatial {"WestBoundingCoordinate":-149.257,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":69.4744,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-98.6421,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":46.8532},"CARTESIAN"
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 681e2eb51bc3d92881e5b174faed3fd3cb2233e8739a9c1c26ab7a03ac8d7e90
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2017-07-09/2017-07-09

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