Photogrammetric scans of aerial photographs of North American glaciers, 1975. Roll 4 thumbnails

Introduction: Between 1958 and 1999, Austin Post led the USGS collection of aerial imagery of North American glaciers. These images are primarily vertical stereo black and white images, although single oblique images, as well as color images have been collected. The glaciers of North America were the subjects, and the digital products made available here serve to document the changes that have occurred to the glaciers over the past 5 decades. The purpose of this project is to preserve the data contained within these film images in a digital format for future analysis of North American glacier change. File Layout: 1. The first level contains an overall data set of image metadata from 1964 - 1997 (nagapData.csv) and an R script (searchData.R) with instructions on how to search and subset the data. fileLayout.pdf shows the file structure and folder contents visually. There are also three kml files with flight path information by decade. 2. The second level is the year in which the pictures were taken. There are 32 years with images from 1964 – 1997. The majority of these folders are jpegs with notes provided by Austin Post. They also contain a year-specific csv (YYYY.csv) that contains image metadata for the entire year (date, roll numbers, location name, longitude, latitude, altitude, media, and comments). The overall data set (nagapData.csv) is the aggregate of each individual “YYYY.csv” file. 3. The glacier photos are located at the third level (this level). The folders at this level are distinguished by camera roll number (1, 2, etc.), and image type (thumbnail, jpeg, or tif); some also contain fiducial and oblique image folders. This level primarily contains image files of aerial photos as either thumbnails, jpegs, or tifs. It also includes a csv with image metadata specific to each roll (date, roll numbers, location name, longitude, latitude, altitude, media, and comments), a text file (info.txt) with camera specifications unique to each image, and a text file (histo.txt or matchReport.txt) with color information and scanner specifications unique to each image.

引言：1958年至1999年间，奥斯汀·波斯特（Austin Post）主持了美国地质调查局（United States Geological Survey, USGS）的北美冰川航空影像采集工作。该数据集以垂直立体黑白航空影像为主，同时也收录了单张倾斜影像与彩色影像。本数据集以北美冰川为观测对象，此处公开的数字化成果用于记录近50年来北美冰川的变化情况。本项目的核心目标是将这些胶片影像中的数据以数字化格式进行留存，以供未来开展北美冰川变化相关研究分析。
文件结构说明：
1. 一级目录包含1964年至1997年的全量影像元数据集（nagapData.csv），以及一份用于指导数据检索与子集提取的R脚本（searchData.R）。fileLayout.pdf以可视化形式展示了整体文件结构与文件夹内容。此外还包含3个按年代划分的飞行路径信息KML文件。
2. 二级目录以影像拍摄年份命名，覆盖1964年至1997年的共32个年份。多数此类文件夹内存储了奥斯汀·波斯特标注的JPEG格式影像，同时还包含针对该年度的专属元数据CSV文件（YYYY.csv），其中记录了全年影像的元数据信息，包括拍摄日期、胶卷编号、地点名称、经度、纬度、飞行高度、介质类型与备注信息。全量元数据集（nagapData.csv）即为所有单个“YYYY.csv”文件的汇总。
3. 冰川影像存储于三级目录（即当前层级）。该层级的文件夹按相机胶卷编号（1、2等）与影像类型（缩略图、JPEG或TIFF）进行划分，部分文件夹还包含检校影像与倾斜影像子文件夹。本层级主要存储各类格式的航空影像文件，包括缩略图、JPEG与TIFF格式。此外还包含针对每个胶卷的专属元数据CSV文件（涵盖拍摄日期、胶卷编号、地点名称、经度、纬度、飞行高度、介质类型与备注信息）、一份记录单张影像专属相机参数的文本文件（info.txt），以及一份包含单张影像色彩信息与扫描仪参数的文本文件（histo.txt或matchReport.txt）。