Le Petit Versailles

Location: Le Petit Versailles, Vacherie, St. James Parish, Louisiana

Date: 2024-09-24

Equipment: DJI Matrice 300 RTK with L1 Lidar

Spatial Reference System: WGS 84 / UTM zone 15N (EPSG: 32615)

This drone lidar dataset documents the lost 19th century pleasure garden of Valcour Aime. 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 a lidar 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.

Le Petit Versailles Lidar Lidar point cloud with true color

Le Petit Versailles Bare Ground Lidar Bare ground point cloud with hypsometric tinting

Data

Point Cloud Viewer: Lidar 2024

Point Cloud: petit-versailles.laz

Surface Raster: petit-versailles-surface.tif

Elevation Raster: petit-versailles-elevation.tif

Contours: petit-versailles-contours.geojson

Canal: petit-versailles-feature.geojson

Features: petit-versailles-features.geojson

Surface	Elevation	Canal

Citing

Please cite as:

Harmon, B. (2026). Le Petit Versailles Dataset (1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19154246

Bibtex:

@dataset{harmon_2026_19154246,
  title     = {Le Petit Versailles Dataset},
  author    = {Harmon, Brendan},
  year      = 2026,
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.19154246},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19154246},
  version   = {1.0.0}
}