Sparse point clouds derived from UAV overflights of the fifteen NPP study sites at Jornada Basin LTER in 2019

This data package contains sparse point clouds for each of the 15
NPP study sites at the Jornada Basin LTER in southern New Mexico,
USA. The point clouds were derived from raw images collected during
uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) overflight missions conducted in late
summer and early autumn of 2019 (1 overflight day per site). For
each site one or two missions were flown during an afternoon using a
DJI Phantom 4 UAV, and between 450 and 1300 12.4 megapixel RGB
images were captured. A subset of images captured at each site were
loaded into Agisoft Metashape software to derive points using a
structure from motion method. The raw images are not provided but
can be made available via project PIs. This data package includes
point clouds for all 15 sites as geotiff raster files. Other derived
products from these UAV missions, including orthomosaic photos,
digital elevation models, and digital terrain models, are available
in other EDI data packages (knb-lter-jrn.210543001,
knb-lter-jrn.210543002, and knb-lter-jrn.210543003, respectively).
This study is complete.