Hyperspectral Surface Directional Reflectance Flight Line Mosaics of Prospect Hill Tract Megaplot Acquired by Unpiloted Aerial System, 2019

Orthorectified flight line hyperspectral cubes retiled for publication. Collectively, the tiled hyperspectral cubes cover the extent of the Prospect Hill Megaplot. Data were acquired using a Headwall Photonics, Inc. Nano VNIR hyperspectral line scanning imager with 273 bands from 400-1000 nm. The sensor was flown on board a DJI M600 hexacopter at an altitude of ~80 m above the forest canopy, yielding ~6 cm GSD. Flight lines were converted from raw sensor observations to upwelling radiance a using a vendor-supplied radiometric calibration file for the sensor, then converted to reflectance using a calibration tarp with known reflectance. Finally, cubes were orthorectified using a 1m DSM in Headwall’s SpectralView software, mosaicked to individual flight line cubes, then subsequently tiled for publication.