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Multiple RGB ortho-mosaics and digital surface models in 2017 and 2018 across the Lower Montane site in the East River Watershed, Colorado

Creators: Baptiste DafflonORCID, Emmanuel Leger, John Peterson
Year: 2025
DOI: 10.15485/1969564
License: CC-BY 4.0
Location: The East River (ER) is a snow‐dominated, headwater basin of the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) located in the western United States. The ER is the designated testbed of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and SLAC Accelerator Laboratory's Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (WFSFA). This portion of the ER watershed contains the project-defined boundaries of East River, Washington Gulch, Slate River, and Coal Creek, as described in the location metadata. Through WFSFA, observational networks have been established to measure stream discharge and precipitation chemistry. The ER is considered representative of many snow‐dominated headwaters of the Rocky Mountains. The study domain encompasses nearly 85 square km, a 1.4‐km vertical drop in elevation (4,120 to 2,760 m) and pristine alpine, subalpine, montane, and riparian ecosystems. The ER contains high‐energy mountain streams to low‐energy meandering floodplains and is eroding primarily into the Cretaceous, carbon‐rich, marine shale of the Mancos Formation. This data package contains geographic metadata for specific observation points throughout the watershed. Additional metadata on specific locations within the watershed are provided in the following related data package: Varadharajan C. et al. (2025) doi:10.15485/1660962
Temporal extent: 2017-05-28 to 2018-10-15
Bounding box: 38.820°N to 39.033°N, -107.120°W to -106.880°W
Publisher: ESS_DIVE
Tags: Unoccupied Aerial System, ESS-DIVE File Level Metadata Reporting Format, ESS-DIVE CSV File Formatting Guidelines Reporting Format, CATEGORICAL:NONE EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY, CATEGORICAL:GCMD EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS > VISIBLE IMAGERY, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION > DIGITAL ELEVATION/TERRAIN MODEL (DEM), EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION > TOPOGRAPHICAL RELIEF MAPS, Alpine & Subalpine Ecology, Plant Biology, Hydrology & Watersheds, Snow & Ice, Groundwater, Geology & Tectonics, Weather & Atmospheric Science, Mining & Mineral Resources, Gunnison Basin, Research Programs

Description

Aerial imagery was collected at the Lower Montane site (Pumphouse) in the East River Watershed, Colorado during the spring, summer, and fall seasons of 2017 and 2018 to improve the understanding of seasonal vegetation dynamics and their drivers. The datasets include Red-Green-Blue (RGB) ortho-mosaics and digital surface models (DSMs) inferred from the Unoccupied Aerial System (UAS) acquired aerial RGB imagery for June 3, June 19, July 7, and August 14, 2017, and for March 14, April 26, June 1, June 18, July 6, and August 7, 2018. Real-Time Kinematic Global Positioning System (RTK-GPS) surveyed Ground control points (GCPs) were used to increase the reconstruction accuracy. The reconstructed RGB mosaics and DSMs have been trimmed to cover a similar spatial domain. The accuracy of the RGB mosaics is considered high (~10 cm). DSM accuracy is highest (~10 cm) where sufficient GCPS are available, and more difficult to assess elsewhere (see reconstruction reports for uncertainty estimates). The dataset includes a total of 20 GeoTIFF (.tif) files, 10 PDF (.pdf) files, 3 data CSV (.csv) files, and 2 metadata CSV (.csv) files. Feel free to contact the authors with any questions or collaboration interests. This work was supported by the Watershed Function Science Focus Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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