Le Petit Versailles Dataset

This drone lidar dataset documents the lost 19th century pleasure garden of Valcour Aime in Vacherie, Louisiana, USA. Long abandoned, the ruins of the garden are enveloped by dense overgrowth and a canopy of mature southern live oaks. The lidar survey reveals traces of the garden such as the historic canals and artificial mountain. The lidar data was processed and analyzed using the GRASS Geocomputation Engine in a computational notebook. This dataset includes the original lidar point cloud, a bare ground point cloud, a digital elevation model, a digital surface model, and a vector map of the historic canals. This project was supported by the LSU Center for GeoInformatics. The data are released under the Creative Commons Zero public domain dedication.