Wildlife Potential Habitat Forecasting Project (WildCast): Photographic Transect Data
WildCast (WILDlife Potential Habitat ForeCASTing Project) is a completed project led by USGS, in collaboration with the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Forest Service.
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Below are the results of the photographic transect project of northwest Alaska, providing access to the photographs, videos, flight routes, and associated data, that were taken during July 16, 17, and 18, 2013. The images depict land cover types as a baseline for measuring future change and to complement other existing grid-based sample photography of the region.
Nadir and oblique images and video were taken of the arctic landscape during low altitude transects conducted from small aircraft over the National Park Service’s Arctic Network (Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park, and Noatak National Preserve) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Selawik National Wildlife Refuge in northwest Alaska.
Data
For more information about the data, click on the respective metadata link. To download data, click on the product name. The download packages can be quite large.
Groupings are listed by the name of the flight transect, camera or application used, and download size in brackets.
- Flight transects: Bering = Bering Land Bridge National Preserve; Kobuk = Kobuk Valley National Park, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, and Selawik National Wildlife Refuge; Noatak = Noatak National Preserve and Cape Krusenstern National Monument.
- Camera used: Drift = Drift HD-170; GoPro = GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition; Panfz = Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200; Pansz7 = Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ7; Canon = Canon Rebel 3Ti.
- Applications: Google = Google Earth.
Suggested Citation: Marcot, B.G., Jorgenson, M.T., DeGange, A.R., 2014, Low-Altitude Photographic Transects of the Arctic Network of National Park Units and Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, July 2013 (ver 1.1, March 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KFIRWQ
Below are publications associated with this project.
Low-altitude photographic transects of the Arctic Network of National Park Units and Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, July 2013
Projected changes in wildlife habitats in Arctic natural areas of northwest Alaska
WildCast (WILDlife Potential Habitat ForeCASTing Project) is a completed project led by USGS, in collaboration with the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Forest Service.
Return to Ecosystems >> WildCast
Below are the results of the photographic transect project of northwest Alaska, providing access to the photographs, videos, flight routes, and associated data, that were taken during July 16, 17, and 18, 2013. The images depict land cover types as a baseline for measuring future change and to complement other existing grid-based sample photography of the region.
Nadir and oblique images and video were taken of the arctic landscape during low altitude transects conducted from small aircraft over the National Park Service’s Arctic Network (Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park, and Noatak National Preserve) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Selawik National Wildlife Refuge in northwest Alaska.
Data
For more information about the data, click on the respective metadata link. To download data, click on the product name. The download packages can be quite large.
Groupings are listed by the name of the flight transect, camera or application used, and download size in brackets.
- Flight transects: Bering = Bering Land Bridge National Preserve; Kobuk = Kobuk Valley National Park, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, and Selawik National Wildlife Refuge; Noatak = Noatak National Preserve and Cape Krusenstern National Monument.
- Camera used: Drift = Drift HD-170; GoPro = GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition; Panfz = Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200; Pansz7 = Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ7; Canon = Canon Rebel 3Ti.
- Applications: Google = Google Earth.
Suggested Citation: Marcot, B.G., Jorgenson, M.T., DeGange, A.R., 2014, Low-Altitude Photographic Transects of the Arctic Network of National Park Units and Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, July 2013 (ver 1.1, March 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KFIRWQ
Below are publications associated with this project.