Melt pond from aerial photographs of the Healy–Oden Trans Arctic Expedition (HOTRAX)

The dataset contains mapped melt pond zones from aerial photographs which were obtained during helicopter photography flights as part of the Healy–Oden Trans Arctic Expedition (HOTRAX) between 5 August and 30 September 2005. The detection has been done using an original detection algorithm based on machine learning (U-Net). The areas in the images were divided into four classes: sea ice/snow, melt ponds, sub-merged ice and open water. The filenames contain IDs from the original dataset [Perovich et al 2008].