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Summary

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Office of Response and Restoration, 2024: Canadian Ice Breaker, Sir Wilfred Laurier Cruise - Ice Characterization, https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/68982.
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Abstract

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.

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None

Use Constraints:

None

Controlled Theme Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE, MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING, OCEANS, SEA ICE

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Type Title
Entity Imagery

Contact Information

Metadata Contact
Office of Response and Restoration (ORR)
ORR Home Page

Extents

Geographic Area 1

Canadian Ice Breaker, Sir Wilfred Laurier Cruise

Time Frame 1
2022-05

Imagery collected between May-June 2022

Item Identification

Title: Canadian Ice Breaker, Sir Wilfred Laurier Cruise - Ice Characterization
Status: Completed
Creation Date: 2022-05
Abstract:

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.

Purpose:

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.

Other Citation Details:

The 'RGB' orthomosaic file is used as an input for this process using Water Mapping, LLC proprietary software. This file is inspected by an analyst who creates training sets of the different features observed on the image. Training sets are created by sampling (selecting) pixels representative of each class. The training set is a database that contains pixel information (reflectance values) that are then processed by a 'Maximum Likelihood' function that will assign an ice class to each pixel on the RGB orthomosaic based on the statistical correlation with the training samples. The result of this process is a new map (Geotiff) in which each pixel on the RGB will be assigned a new Ice Classification value.

Supplemental Information:

This Ice Characterization map was created with the purpose of improving thermal and multispectral sensor utility to detect and characterize surface oil in broken ice conditions while using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).

Keywords

Theme Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE
UNCONTROLLED
None Incidents
None National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
None NOAA
None Oil
None Oil Spill

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Thesaurus Keyword
UNCONTROLLED
None Alaska
None Arctic

Physical Location

Organization: Office of Response and Restoration
City: Silver Spring
State/Province: MD
Country: United States

Data Set Information

Data Set Scope Code: Data Set
Data Set Type: GIS Files
Maintenance Frequency: None Planned
Data Presentation Form: Zipfiles, TIFF Maps
Data Set Credit: ORR, Watermapping

Support Roles

Data Steward

CC ID: 1201422
Date Effective From: 2022
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): Office of Response and Restoration (ORR)
Address: 1305 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
URL: ORR Home Page

Distributor

CC ID: 1201423
Date Effective From: 2022
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): Office of Response and Restoration (ORR)
Address: 1305 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
URL: ORR Home Page

Metadata Contact

CC ID: 1201424
Date Effective From: 2022
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): Office of Response and Restoration (ORR)
Address: 1305 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
URL: ORR Home Page

Extents

Currentness Reference: Ground Condition

Extent Group 1

Extent Group 1 / Geographic Area 1

CC ID: 1202157
Description

Canadian Ice Breaker, Sir Wilfred Laurier Cruise

Extent Group 1 / Time Frame 1

CC ID: 1201433
Time Frame Type: Discrete
Start: 2022-05
Description:

Imagery collected between May-June 2022

Spatial Information

Reference Systems

Reference System 1

CC ID: 1201431

Coordinate Reference System

CRS Type: Projected
EPSG Code: EPSG:3857
EPSG Name: WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator
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Access Information

Security Class: Unclassified
Data Access Procedure:

RDC Oil in Ice data can be obtained through the DIVER portal:

https://www.diver.orr.noaa.gov/

Data Access Constraints:

None

Data Use Constraints:

None

Metadata Access Constraints:

None

Metadata Use Constraints:

None

Distribution Information

Distribution 1

CC ID: 1201425
Start Date: 2022
End Date: Present
Download URL: https://www.diver.orr.noaa.gov/
Distributor: Office of Response and Restoration (ORR) (2022 - Present)
File Name: Oliktok - Water Mapping-collected data
File Type (Deprecated): TIFF
Distribution Format: TIFF
Compression: Uncompressed

URLs

URL 1

CC ID: 1201426
URL: http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/
Name: Office of Response and Restoration
URL Type:
Online Resource
Description:

Office of Response and Restoration Home Page

Technical Environment

Description:

ArcPRO, ERMA

Data Quality

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Completeness Report:

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Conceptual Consistency:

Not Available

Quality Control Procedures Employed:

Not Available

Data Management

Have Resources for Management of these Data Been Identified?: No
Approximate Percentage of Budget for these Data Devoted to Data Management: Unknown
Do these Data Comply with the Data Access Directive?: No
Is Access to the Data Limited Based on an Approved Waiver?: No
Actual or Planned Long-Term Data Archive Location: Other
If World Data Center or Other, Specify: Online
Approximate Delay Between Data Collection and Archiving: TBD

Acquisition Information

Instruments

Instrument Unavailable Reason: Not Applicable

Platforms

Platform Unavailable Reason: Not Applicable

Child Items

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Catalog Details

Catalog Item ID: 68982
GUID: gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:68982
Metadata Record Created By: Adam Rotert
Metadata Record Created: 2022-12-30 21:27+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By: SysAdmin InPortAdmin
Metadata Record Last Modified: 2023-10-17 16:12+0000
Metadata Record Published: 2023-02-15
Owner Org: ORR
Metadata Publication Status: Published Externally
Do Not Publish?: N
Metadata Last Review Date: 2022-11-07
Metadata Review Frequency: 1 Year
Metadata Next Review Date: 2023-11-07