High-resolution orthorectified camera imagery (DP1.30010.001)

The digital camera is part of a suite of instruments on the NEON Airborne Observation Platform (AOP) that also includes a full-waveform, small-footprint LiDAR system and the NEON Imaging Spectrometer. In the orthorectification process, the digital imagery is remapped to the same geographic projection as the LiDAR and imaging spectrometer data that is acquired simultaneously. The resulting images will share the same map projection grid space as the orthorectified spectrometer and LiDAR imagery. Since the digital camera imagery is acquired at higher spatial resolution than the imaging spectrometer data, it can aid in identifying features in the spectrometer images including manmade features (e.g., roads, fence lines, and buildings) that are indicative of land-use change. Level 1 RGB camera images are distributed as one camera frame per GeoTIFF file. Latency: AOP data will be available 60 days after the final collection day at a site.