Point Cloud Repository
Welcome to the XYZ Point Cloud Repository, a collection of point clouds from laser scanning and photogrammetry by Louisiana State University’s College of Art and Design.
Rosedown is a two hundred acre site in St. Francisville, Louisiana with the well preserved remains of an antebellum plantation dating from 1834 including the main house, ancillary buildings, and formal gardens. The point cloud of Rosedown was created using terrestrial laser scanning with a Faro Focus and drone photogrammetry with a DJI Matrice 600 Pro with Zenmuse X5 camera. The project was lead by Brendan Harmon and Nicholas Serrano. The team included Josef Horacek, Sasha Matthieu, William Conrad, Javier Zamora, Matthew Cranney, and Ming Li. This project was supported by the LSU Center for GeoInformatics and LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio and funded by the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Fund. The datasets are licensed Creative Commons Zero.
Rosedown Point Cloud Viewer
The model of Rosedown is composed of many separate point clouds, each recording an important element of the plantation. This point cloud viewer presents the collection as an ensemble that can be explored by toggling on or off layers. Open the viewer, expand its menu, then expand the scene tab, and turn on or off point cloud layers.
Point Cloud Datasets
Location: Hilltop Arboretum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Team: Brendan Harmon, Josef Horacek, Dan Cooke, & Matthew Cranney
Equipment: FireFLY Pro 6 with MicaSense RedEdge-M sensor
Hilltop Photogrammetry 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. 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 was Brendan Harmon. The team included 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 was supported by the LSU Center for GeoInformatics. The datasets are licensed Creative Commons Zero.
Point Cloud Time Series Viewers
Explore the time series of point clouds with Potree by expanding the point cloud viewer’s menu, expanding the scene tab, and turning on or off point cloud layers.
Point Cloud Datasets
Location: Hilltop Arboretum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Team: Brendan Harmon
Equipment: DJI Matrice 300 RTK with L1 Lidar
Hilltop Lidar From 2022 onwards the meadow is being surveyed annually using a drone with lidar. The ongoing surveys are conducted with a DJI Matrice 300 RTK drone with an L1 lidar sensor. This project is supported by the LSU Center for GeoInformatics. The datasets are licensed Creative Commons Zero.
Avery Island Buddha A laser scan of the Buddha in the Jungle Gardens on Avery Island in Louisiana by Brendan Harmon and William Ma. The point cloud is licensed Creative Commons Zero.
Point Cloud Viewer & Dataset
Cloud Forest
is a collection of laser scanned trees and other plants.
Each plant is available as laz, e57, pcd, xyz, and 3dm format point clouds.
The project lead is Brendan Harmon.
The project team includes Javier Zamora, Huan Guo, Jacob Contreras, and Ryan Antoon.
The point clouds are released under the
Creative Commons Zero
public domain dedication.
10.5281/zenodo.8194067
The Atlas of Heritage Trees
is an archive of ancient trees
of exceptional historical, cultural, and ecological significance.
The trees, captured using terrestrial laser scanning and drone lidar,
have been archived in
laz, e57, pcd, xyz, and 3dm format point clouds.
The project leads are Brendan Harmon
and Hye Yeon Nam.
Contributors include
Javier Zamora,
Huan Guo,
William Reinhardt,
Julie Whitbeck,
Kaiti Fink,
and Jeff Boucher.
This project was funded by the LSU Arts & Humanities Support Fund
and supported by the LSU Center for GeoInformatics
and the LSU Coastal Ecosystem Design Studio.
The point clouds are released under the
Creative Commons Zero
public domain dedication.
10.5281/zenodo.8353292
Team Leadership: Annicia Streete, Brendan Harmon, and Nicholas Serrano.
Team: Carlos Roman, Cecil Chapman, Christos Baos, Graham Hargis, Joseph Brooks, etc.
Equipment: DJI Matrice 300 RTK with L1 Lidar
Funding: National Park Service Preservation Technology and Training Grant & Architecture Research Centers Consortium’s Research Incentive Award
African American Burial Grounds This project aims to document African American burial grounds in the Louisiana River Parishes. The Louisiana River Parishes are scattered with hundreds of African American cemeteries dating back to the antebellum period when plantations lined both sides of the Mississippi River. This history of environmental racism continued into the 20th century as the region was favored for hazardous petrochemical production facilities. Today these cultural landscapes are threatened by industrial expansion, climate change, missing land-tenure records, and dwindling populations of descendant communities. Our team is 3D scanning burial grounds and compiling a database of interactive, publicly accessible digital models to preserve the record of these cultural landscapes. The project leads are Annicia Streete, Brendan Harmon, and Nicholas Serrano. This research is funded by a National Park Service Preservation Technology and Training Grant. This project is supported by the LSU Center for GeoInformatics and the LSU Coastal Ecosystem Design Studio. The point clouds are released under the Creative Commons Zero public domain dedication.
Alford Lidar 2023 + alford-lidar-2023.laz
Alford Lidar 2024 + alford-lidar-2024.laz
Alma Lidar 2024 + alma-lidar-2024.laz
Ashland Lidar 2024 + ashland-lidar-2024.laz
Chamberlin Lidar 2024 + chamberlin-lidar-2024.laz
Lady of Knight Lidar 2024 + lady-of-knight-lidar-2024.laz
Mt. Zion Riverlake Lidar 2024 + riverlake-lidar-2024.laz
Mulatto Bend Lidar 2024 + mulatto-bend-lidar-2024.laz
Silvery Lidar 2024 + silvery-lidar-2024.laz
St. Catherine Lidar 2024 + st-catherine-lidar-2024.laz
United Benevolent Society Lidar 2024 + united-lidar-2024.laz
Location: Le Petit Versailles, Vacherie, St. James Parish, Louisiana
Team: Brendan Harmon
Equipment: DJI Matrice 300 RTK with L1 Lidar
Le Petit Versailles A drone lidar survey of 19th century pleasure garden of Valcour Aimee. Long abandoned, the ruins of the garden are lost beneath dense overgrowth and a canopy of mature southern live oaks. The lidar survey reveals traces of the garden such as the historic waterways and mound. This project was supported by the LSU Center for GeoInformatics and the LSU Coastal Ecosystem Design Studio. The data are released under the Creative Commons Zero public domain dedication.
Lidar point cloud with true color
Bare ground point cloud with hypsometric tinting
Viewer: Lidar 2024
Point Clouds: petit-versailles.laz + petit-versailles-ground.laz
Raster: petit-versailles.tif