Hilltop Arboretum
Hilltop Photogrammetry
Location: Hilltop Arboretum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Team: Brendan Harmon, Josef Horacek, Dan Cooke, & Matthew Cranney
Equipment: FireFLY Pro 6 with MicaSense RedEdge-M sensor
A Cajun Prairie Wildflower Meadow was established in 2020 at the LSU Hilltop Arboretum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Five fields have been restored as coastal tallgrass prairie, a highly endangered ecosystem of which only one percent remains intact. From 2020 to 2021, the evolution of the newly established meadow was recorded with a series of monthly aerial surveys by a drone with a multispectral sensor. Net annual biomass and carbon were computed from the time series of point clouds.
The team lead for this project is Brendan Harmon. Contributors include Josef Horacek, Dan Cooke, and Matthew Cranney. The surveys were conducted with a FireFLY Pro 6 fixed wing drone with a MicaSense RedEdge-M sensor and 9 permanent ground control points. This project is supported by the LSU Center for GeoInformatics. The datasets are licensed Creative Commons Zero.
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