68940 Data Set Published / External 67983 USCG Research Development Center Oil in Ice (RDC) Project Completed 2022-05 NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration lead a multi-agency research team including the Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC), students from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and scientists from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the United States Coast Guard (USCG) designed experiments to evaluate the capabilities of various technologies such as multispectral and thermal sensors, to characterize oil in ice environments. This information is used to help responders understand the particular strengths of different technologies to characterize oil in broken ice environments. This project involved 2 separate experiments which were conducted on near the shore of the Beaufort Sea in Alaska at the DOE testing facility at Oliktok Point and at the Kuparuk River between May 31st and June 6th and aboard the Canadian Coast Guard Cutter Sir Wilfrid Laurier between July 25th - 28th, 2022. The findings of these studies will be used to support spill response and assessment activities in open water ice environments throughout the navigable waters of the US. The goal of these studies is to improve the understanding of the capacity of different sensors to detect oil at different thicknesses in ice conditions. Data will be collected from UAS platforms using multiple sensors (visual, multispectral, thermal) over small totes and broken sea ice offshore of the facility as well as in the open waters of the Beaufort Sea to facilitate identification and characterization of oil and ice features. The products generated will be orthomosaic maps of the broken ice related characterizations of this ice showing how the targets are identified from the UAS at different altitudes. This 'RGB' orthomosaic file is used as an input for the Ice Characterization process created by Water Mapping, LLC proprietary software. This orthomosaic was created to improve thermal and multispectral sensor capacity to detect and characterize surface oil in broken ice conditions while using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The orthomosaic is compiled by including hundreds of independent images collected by the UAS. The ground pixel resolution for this orthomosaic is approximately 2.5x2.5cm per pixel. Theme Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords EARTH SCIENCE Theme Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS Theme Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING Theme Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE Theme Incidents Theme NOAA Theme National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Theme Oil Theme Oil Spill Spatial Alaska Spatial Arctic Office of Response and Restoration Silver Spring MD United States Data Set GIS Files None Planned Zipfiles, TIFF Maps ORR, Watermapping 68984 Published / External Completed GIS File Yes GEOTIFF Raster File Data Steward 2022 Organization Office of Response and Restoration ORR https://ror.org/03g5tqa50 1305 East-West Highway Silver Spring MD 20910 https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/ ORR Home Page Online Resource Distributor 2022 Organization Office of Response and Restoration ORR https://ror.org/03g5tqa50 1305 East-West Highway Silver Spring MD 20910 https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/ ORR Home Page Online Resource Metadata Contact 2022 Organization Office of Response and Restoration ORR https://ror.org/03g5tqa50 1305 East-West Highway Silver Spring MD 20910 https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/ ORR Home Page Online Resource Ground Condition Oliktok Field Camp -149.882831 -149.864791 70.504052 70.499257 Field Camp Area Discrete 2022-05 Imagery collected between May-June 2022 Projected EPSG:3857 WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator World Geodetic System 1984 WGS 84 6378137 298.257223563 WGS 84 Popular Visualisation Pseudo-Mercator Popular Visualisation Pseudo Mercator Latitude of natural origin 0° 0' 0" N Longitude of natural origin 0° 0' 0" E False easting 0 metre False northing 0 metre 1 Easting X metre east 2 Northing Y metre north Standard CC0-1.0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ These data were produced by NOAA and are not subject to copyright protection in the United States. NOAA waives any potential copyright and related rights in these data worldwide through the Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0-1.0). Unclassified RDC Oil in Ice data can be obtained through the DIVER portal: https://www.diver.orr.noaa.gov/ None None None None https://www.diver.orr.noaa.gov/ 2022 Organization Office of Response and Restoration https://ror.org/03g5tqa50 Oliktok - Water Mapping-collected data TIFF TIFF Uncompressed https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/ Office of Response and Restoration Online Resource Office of Response and Restoration Home Page ArcPRO, ERMA Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available No Unknown No No Other TBD Not Applicable Not Applicable 68984 Entity gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:68940 Adam Rotert 2022-12-30T17:26:14 SysAdmin InPortAdmin 2026-07-09T18:26:06 2023-02-15 Office of Response and Restoration ORR 1002 Public No No 2022-11-07 1 Year 2023-11-07