gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:68979 eng UTF8 dataset GIS Files Office of Response and Restoration resourceProvider Office of Response and Restoration 1305 East-West Highway Silver Spring MD 20910 https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link ORR Home Page Website listed for Office of Response and Restoration information pointOfContact 2026-03-04T19:17:18 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for imagery and gridded data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) EPSG::3857 Oliktok Point, AK Field Tests - Ice Characterization 2022-05 creation publication NOAA/NMFS/EDM 68979 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/68979 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Full Metadata Record View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. information https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Office of Response and Restoration Office of Response and Restoration Home Page download 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. 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. ORR, Watermapping completed Office of Response and Restoration 1305 East-West Highway Silver Spring MD 20910 https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link ORR Home Page Website listed for Office of Response and Restoration information custodian notPlanned EARTH SCIENCE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE theme Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords 17.0 Incidents NOAA National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Oil Oil Spill theme Alaska Arctic place DOC/NOAA/NOS/ORR > Office of Response and Restoration, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 2017-04-24 publication 8.5 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 22. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian USCG Research Development Center Oil in Ice (RDC) project InPort otherRestrictions Cite As: Office of Response and Restoration, [Date of Access]: Oliktok Point, AK Field Tests - Ice Characterization [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/68979. NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose. otherRestrictions Access Constraints: None otherRestrictions Use Constraints: None unclassified NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) NOAA/NMFS/EDM 68979 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/orr/dmp/pdf/68979.pdf WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. information crossReference eng; US oceans ArcPRO, ERMA Oliktok Field Camp -149.882831 -149.864791 70.499257 70.504052 Field Camp Area Imagery collected between May-June 2022 | Currentness: Ground Condition 2022-05-01 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). false eng false GIS File Imagery 2023-02-15 publication TIFF Uncompressed Office of Response and Restoration 1305 East-West Highway Silver Spring MD 20910 https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link ORR Home Page Website listed for Office of Response and Restoration information distributor https://www.diver.orr.noaa.gov/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Oliktok - Water Mapping-collected data download dataset Representativeness Not Available Accuracy Not Available Analytical Accuracy Not Available Horizontal Positional Accuracy Not Available Vertical Positional Accuracy Not Available Quantitation Limits Not Available Bias Not Available Comparability Not Available Completeness Measure Not Available Precision Not Available Analytical Precision Not Available Field Precision Not Available Sensitivity Not Available Detection Limit Not Available Completeness Report Not Available Conceptual Consistency Not Available otherRestrictions otherRestrictions Access Constraints: None | Use Constraints: None