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    "tag": 15762,
    "title": "Orthomosaic imagery for Whiskeytown Lake and surrounding area, northern California, 2019-11-12",
    "pubdate": "20210702",
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    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/P9HEDYNT",
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    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/pcmsc\/DataReleases\/ScienceBase\/DR_P9HEDYNT\/Whiskeytown_2019-11-12_orthomosaic.faq.html",
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    "descript": "This portion of the data release presents an RGB orthomosaic image of Whiskeytown Lake and the surrounding area derived from Structure from Motion (SfM) processing of aerial imagery acquired on 2019-11-12. The orthomosaic is available in a high-resolution 6-centimeter (cm) version, as well as a medium-resolution 25 cm version. The high-resolution version is divided into two tiles (east and west) to reduce file download sizes. All imagery is provided in a three-band cloud optimized GeoTIFF format, with 8-bit unsigned integer values compressed using high-quality JPEG compression. The raw imagery used to create the orthomosaic image was acquired from a manned aircraft on 2019-11-12. The acquisition flight was conducted by The 111th Group Aerial Photography, using a Hasselblad A6D-100c camera. The imagery was acquired from an approximate altitude of 880 meters (2,900 feet) above ground level, to produce a nominal ground sample distance (pixel size) of 5 centimeters (2 inches). An onboard dual-frequency GPS receiver was used to record the precise time and position of each image. Coordinates for ground control points consisting of photo-identifiable objects were measured independently using survey-grade post-processed kinematic (PPK) GPS.",
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Logan, Joshua B.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "East, Amy E.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ritchie, Andrew C.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Dartnell, Peter",
            "role": "Author"
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            "name": "aerial photography",
            "scope": "The process of taking pictures with a camera from an aircraft. Use for both the process of photography from the air and the images produced by the process."
        },
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        },
        {
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            "name": "geomorphology",
            "scope": "Branch of geology dealing with surface land features and the processes that create and change them."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "2046",
            "name": "image mosaics",
            "scope": "Composite images formed by overlapping existing images, typically arranged to achieve greater spatial coverage."
        },
        {
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        },
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        {
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