Photographic Aerial Transects of Fort Wainwright, Alaska

Abstract

This report presents the results of low-altitude photographic transects conducted over the training areas of US Army Garrison Fort Wainwright, in the boreal biome of central Alaska, to document baseline land-cover conditions. Flights were conducted via a Cessna 180 on two flight paths over portions of the Tanana Flats, Yukon, and Donnelly Training Areas and covered 486 mi (782 km) while documenting GPS waypoints. Nadir photographs were made with two GoPro cameras operating at 5 sec time-lapse intervals and with a handheld digital camera for oblique imagery. This yielded 6,063 GoPro photos and 706 oblique photos. Each image was intersected with a land-cover-classification map, collectively representing 38 of the 44 cover categories.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2022
Accession Number
AD1179720

Entities

People

  • Bruce G. Marcot
  • M. T. Jorgenson
  • Patricia Nelsen
  • Thomas A. Douglas

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center
  • United States Forest Service

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Altitude
  • Cameras
  • Change Detection
  • Classification
  • Cold Regions
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detection
  • Digital Cameras
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Fires
  • Flight
  • Flight Paths
  • Low Altitude
  • Photographs
  • Photography
  • Vegetation
  • Wildfires

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Seismology
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.

Technology Areas

  • Space