Photography of the Kerguelen Islands (Field Mission, Nov 2024 – Jan 2025)

This dataset gathers a series of panoramic and standard photographs collected during the field campaign conducted on the Kerguelen Islands in the austral summer of 2024–2025 (IPEV program 136). The images were acquired using a panoramic camera (Insta360 X5) and a reflex camera (Canon EOS 450D, 18–250 mm IS lens) during pedestrian surveys across several sites of the archipelago. The photographs provide a visual characterization of the five radiometric landscape classes identified from MODIS NDVI time series. Foor representative images are presented for each landscape type, illustrating the diversity of habitats and environmental conditions associated with them. They constitute a representative sample of the environments surveyed during the mission, although some habitat diversity at the scale of the archipelago may not be fully captured. This dataset aims to document and validate the outcomes of the satellite-based analysis, providing a field perspective on the organization and heterogeneity of Kerguelen Islands landscapes.