Data collected in and along the Devils River from Juno to Lake Amistad, Texas includes topographic and bathymetric lidar, orthophotos, sonar, and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data. The collection, authored by John Andrews and harvested by the Texas Data Repository, was last updated on March 18, 2024. For a detailed study area from Finnegan Springs to Dolan Falls, it provides composite raster datasets combining lidar and GPR data.
Use Cases
- Modeling riverbed topography and bathymetry based on the provided lidar and sonar point cloud data.
- Creating high-resolution base maps for environmental studies using the orthophoto imagery.
- Analyzing subsurface geological structures in a specific river pool based on the ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data.
- Conducting change detection or habitat mapping along the Devils River using the composite raster datasets.
Strengths
- Includes multiple complementary data types: lidar, orthophotos, sonar, and GPR.
- Provides a detailed composite dataset for a specific two-kilometer study area from Finnegan Springs to Dolan Falls.
- Data is available in both raster (BIL, GeoTIFF) and point cloud (LAS) formats for flexibility.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- The overall spatial and temporal scale of the full dataset is not explicitly quantified in the description.
Provenance
- Source
- Texas Data Repository Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Collected via aerial/survey methods including lidar, sonar, GPR, and photographic techniques.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2024-03-18 10:25:47; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Devils River from Juno to Lake Amistad, Texas, USA, with a detailed focus area from Finnegan Springs to Dolan Falls.