Photogrammetric scans of aerial photographs of North American glaciers, 1984. Roll 1 tiffs

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) with color information 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。本数据集的影像以垂直立体黑白影像为主，同时也涵盖单张倾斜影像与彩色影像。拍摄对象为北美冰川，本平台提供的数字化成果旨在记录过去50年间北美冰川发生的变化。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保存，以便未来开展北美冰川变化相关的分析研究。 ### 文件结构 1. 第一层级包含1964年至1997年的影像元数据总数据集（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文件结构与文件夹内容。此外还包含三个按年代划分飞行路径信息的KML文件。 2. 第二层级为影像拍摄年份。本次数据集涵盖1964年至1997年的32个年份的影像数据。大部分年份文件夹内包含奥斯汀·波斯特提供注释的JPEG影像，同时还包含一份专属的年度元数据CSV文件（YYYY.csv），涵盖全年影像的元数据信息，包括拍摄日期、航带编号、地点名称、经度、纬度、飞行高度、介质类型与备注。总数据集（nagapData.csv）即所有单个年度CSV文件的汇总。 3. 第三层级即为冰川影像的存储位置。该层级的文件夹以航带编号（1、2等）与影像类型（缩略图、JPEG或TIFF）进行区分，部分文件夹还包含框标影像与倾斜影像子文件夹。本层级主要存储航空照片的影像文件，格式包括缩略图、JPEG与TIFF。此外还包含每份航带专属的影像元数据CSV文件（包含拍摄日期、航带编号、地点名称、经度、纬度、飞行高度、介质类型与备注）、一份记录每幅影像专属相机参数的文本文件（info.txt），以及一份记录每幅影像专属色彩信息的文本文件（histo.txt）。