Photogrammetry-derived digital surface model and orthoimagery of areas near the Dalton Highway, Yukon River Crossing, Alaska

The State of Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) produced a digital surface model (DSM) and an orthorectified aerial image (orthoimagery) over Yukon River Crossing in support of landslide hazard mapping. Aerial photographs and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data were collected on June 30, 2016, and were processed using Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetric techniques to create the DSM and orthoimagery. For the purpose of enabling open access to geospatial datasets in Alaska, this collection is being released as a Raw Data File with an open end-user license. All files can be downloaded free of charge from the DGGS website (http://doi.org/10.14509/30183). DSMs represent surface elevations of all surfaces, including vegetation, vegetation-free land, bridges, buildings, etc. The Yukon River (not including tributaries and lakes within the study area) was hydro flattened using standardized hydro flattening workflow in ArcMap (McLean, 2018) with a resulting elevation change from 85.1 m in the east to 81.1 m in the west within the DSM boundary (east-west streamflow direction). The DSM is a single-band, 32-bit float GeoTIFF file, with a ground sample distance (GSD) of 0.47 m. No Data value is set to -3.40282306074e+038.