Geo-referenced digital photographs with associated GPS waypoints and tracks for terrestrial ecosystem types from south-eastern Victoria Island, 2013

Geo-referenced digital photographs with the associated GPS waypoints and tracks of various terrestrial ecosystem types have been taken during the summer of 2013 in south-eastern Victoria Island, around Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. The photographs, in combination with additional GPS waypoints and tracks, characterize site, soil and vegetation characteristics of the arctic landscape. The geo-referenced photographs and the GPS data will be entered in a GIS software and overlaid on satellite imagery. By matching pixel colours of the satellite images with different ecosystem types in the field, a model will be developed that will allow the assessment of ecosystem types over large areas, based solely on satellite imagery. The digital photographs were taken from ground with GPS-enabled cameras (geographical coordinates written in the image file's exif information). The GPS Waypoints and tracks files are in both *.gpx and *.txt format.