John Andrews from the Texas Data Repository published this geospatial dataset on 2024-03 18. It contains topographic and bathymetric lidar data, orthophotos, sonar, and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data collected in and along the Devils River from Juno to Lake Amistad, Texas. The data includes 1-meter raster and point cloud formats, with a detailed two-kilometer study area from Finnegan Springs to Dolan Falls.
Use Cases
- Modeling riverbed topography and underwater features based on bathymetric lidar and sonar data.
- Creating high-resolution orthophoto mosaics for land cover analysis along the river corridor.
- Fusing lidar and GPR data to analyze subsurface structures in the detailed study pool.
- Generating composite terrain models for environmental and geological research in the region.
Strengths
- Includes multiple complementary data types: lidar, orthophotos, sonar, and GPR.
- Provides a detailed two-kilometer study area with composite lidar+GPR raster data.
- 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.
- Row count and total file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Texas Data Repository Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Collected via topographic/bathymetric lidar, sonar, GPR, and aerial photography.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2024-03-18 08:59:52; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Devils River from Juno to Lake Amistad, Texas, USA, with a detailed area from Finnegan Springs to Dolan Falls.