Ground control points collected during unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights: Potomac River in Shepherdstown, West Virginia on October 21, 2019
Dates
Publication Date
2020-07-31
Time Period
2019-10-21
Citation
Cashman, M.J., Brosnahan, S.M., Caldwell, S.H., Staub, L.E., DeWitt, J., Young, J., Duda, J., and Griese, A.J., 2020, Low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) at select locations over the Potomac River, October 2019: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P970EQ7D.
Summary
Low-altitude digital images were taken over an area of the Potomac River in Shepherdstown, West Virginia using 3DR Solo unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) on October 21, 2019. The imagery was collected for the purpose of evaluating UAS assessment of river habitat data such as water depth, substrate type, and water clarity. Some photographs contain black and white targets used as ground control points (GCPs), which were surveyed by a field crew with a high-precision (GNSS) Global Navigation Satellite System and/or containing internal post processing kinematic (PPK) GPS system. This data release contains the csv file containing the latitude and longitude coordinates, in Universal Transverse Mercator Zone 18N referenced to the North American [...]
Summary
Low-altitude digital images were taken over an area of the Potomac River in Shepherdstown, West Virginia using 3DR Solo unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) on October 21, 2019. The imagery was collected for the purpose of evaluating UAS assessment of river habitat data such as water depth, substrate type, and water clarity. Some photographs contain black and white targets used as ground control points (GCPs), which were surveyed by a field crew with a high-precision (GNSS) Global Navigation Satellite System and/or containing internal post processing kinematic (PPK) GPS system. This data release contains the csv file containing the latitude and longitude coordinates, in Universal Transverse Mercator Zone 18N referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (2011), of the ground control points.
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Shepherdstown_gcp_metadata.xml Original FGDC Metadata
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Purpose
These ground control points were obtained in order to provide survey-quality ground validation, which exceeds the accuracy from the photo geolocations alone.
