Thermal infrared and photogrammetric data collected by drone for hydrogeologic characterization around two US Geological Survey Next Generation Water Observing Systems stream gage locations near Claryville, NY, USA

Publication Date

2020-05-01

Start Date

2019-10-08

End Date

2019-10-10

Briggs, M.A., Dawson, C.B., White, E.A., Gazoorian, C.L., Hare, D.K., and Lane, J.W., 2020, Thermal infrared and photogrammetric data collected by drone for hydrogeologic characterization around two US Geological Survey Next Generation Water Observing Systems stream gage locations near Claryville, NY, USA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FIZTPU.

There are multiple purposes for this drone-based data collection. At a high level, the data are used to support the characterization of lateral exchanges of groundwater and surface water along the river corridor. More specifically, the thermal data can be used to indicate groundwater discharge locations due to inherent differences in groundwater and surface water temperatures during most times of day in October at these locations. Thermal data can also be used to map larger scale warming of river water during the day above natural impoundments such as beaver dams and gravel bars, adding to the heterogenous ‘thermalscape’ of the river corridor. Visual data are used to infer surface water levels, bank structure, and lateral hydrologic gradients. Additionally, both the visible-light and thermal orthomosaics are useful as a time-specific georeferenced map of the river corridor upon which point-scale spatial data can be visualized.

• USGS Data Release Products
• USGS Hydrogeophysics Branch

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