CARVE Aircraft In-flight Video Recordings of the Arctic

Alaskan and Canadian Arctic airborne video footage captured during the Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE). The dataset consists of videos from a camera mounted on the CARVE aircraft, collected across multiple flight campaigns from 2012 to 2015. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration produced this data to investigate seasonal and inter-annual variability in atmospheric gas content.

Use Cases

• Analyzing visible-wavelength ground conditions for correlation with atmospheric gas measurements.
• Documenting seasonal surface changes (snow cover, vegetation, water bodies) in the Arctic from 2012-2015.
• Providing visual context for flight paths and instrument data collected during the CARVE mission.
• Supporting educational or public outreach materials on Arctic research and airborne science.

Strengths

• Contains multi-year coverage from 2012 to 2015, enabling analysis of inter-annual variability.
• Focuses on the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic, a critical region for climate change research.
• Data is associated with a specific NASA experiment (CARVE), providing clear scientific context.

Limitations

• Specific video count, file sizes, and exact column/attribute details are not provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on last updated date: one platform shows 2026-03-13, while another shows 2015-11-12.
• License is listed as 'other-license-specified' without explicit terms on data.gov.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Videos captured by a camera mounted on the CARVE aircraft during airborne campaigns.

Time Range

2012 to 2015

Freshness

2026-03-13 05:57:16.877639

Geography

Alaskan and Canadian Arctic