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    • SAFARI 2000 Landscape Photographs of Kalahari Transect, Mongu, Skukuza Sites

    Metadata Updated: January 15, 2026

    This data set contains Global Positioning System (GPS) imprinted landscape photographs at 100 m intervals along the Large Grid Transects at Kalahari Transect sites in Botswana and at measurement sites in Kataba Forest, Mongu, Zambia and in the vicinity of the Skukuza flux tower site in Kruger National Park, South Africa. The Kalahari sites visited were Pandamatenga, Maun, Okwa Valley, and Tshane. There are about 30 pictures per site. In a related study, vegetation cover and composition were measured at various locations along the Kalahari Transect and trends in major vegetative cover, including species types and richness, were recorded (Ringrose and Matheson, 2004). The sites visited showed interesting degrees of variability despite the apparent homogeneity of the Kalahari sands and predominantly semi-arid savanna shrub-woodland vegetation cover. In this data set, the photography provides a visual characterization of species composition and vegetation cover along the Kalahari Transect. The photographs are intended to aid in the interpretation of other data sets, and can be used to suggest canopy height, gap fraction, grass, soil, and sky conditions.The photographs are provided as JPEG images. The following information is imprinted across the top of each photograph: camera number; date mode (G=UTC time) and date (YYMMDD format); time (HHMMSS format); locational mode (1 char) and DOP value (A 9.1); longitude (N, S), followed by DDMM.MMM format; latitude (E, W) followed by DDDMM.MMM format; and bearing (degrees) from magnetic north (indicates direction of shot).

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    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 January 15, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 15, 2026
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/769
    Data Last Modified 2026-01-13
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=kt_gps_photos_769&ac=true
    Old Spatial {"WestBoundingCoordinate":21.6964,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":-15.4211,"EastBoundingCoordinate":31.48,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-25.02},"CARTESIAN"
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash cc9a05896f028a753cdd77950760d5c00a8ad0cee0e5aefa66bb21d7664b79aa
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2000-03-01/2000-03-01

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