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Digital true-color photographs of bluffs and ground control points from unoccupied aerial system operations in Ludington, MI, July 11, 2019, and July 14, 2021

Dates

Publication Date
Time Period
2019-07-11
Time Period
2021-07-14

Citation

Palaseanu-Lovejoy, M., Becker, R., and Yellich, J., 2022, Digital photographs using a remotely piloted unoccupied aerial system and derived point clouds for bluffs in Ludington, MI, July 11, 2019, and July 14, 2021: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BB9NSF.

Summary

Images were collected using a remotely piloted unoccupied aerial system (UAS) over the bluffs of the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in Ludington, MI, a rural natural area to assess land changes. The digital imagery was collected with the internal camera of a DJI Phantom 3 PRO for 2019 data and DJI Phantom 4 PRO for 2021 data that was operated by the University of Toledo. The images cover an extent between north of Chauvez Rd. to the south and north of W. Bradshaw Rd. to the north. Images were collected to monitor active bluff erosion in the area. The images are presented here in zipped files grouped by type of collection, nadir and oblique and survey date. The images were collected in .jpg format with red, green, blue (RGB) information [...]

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Ludington2019_2021_survey_extent1.jpg
“Location of bluff surveys 2019 and 2021, Ludington, Mason county, MI”
thumbnail 642.2 KB image/jpeg
1.11 GB application/zip
1.37 GB application/zip
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1.45 GB application/zip
Ludington_MI_07112019_GCPs.csv 276 Bytes text/csv
Ludington_MI_07142021_GCPs.csv 398 Bytes text/csv

Purpose

Images were collected to monitor active bluff erosion in the area. Ground control points are used to georeferenced images for Structure-from-Motion processing.

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