UAS RGB and Multispectral Imagery for Ecosystem Monitoring, Calperum 2022

TERN's Calperum Mallee SuperSite dataset contains drone-collected RGB and multispectral imagery from a 2022 field trial. Standardized protocols using a DJI Matrice 300 RTK with P1 and RedEdge-MX/Dual sensors produced co-registered orthomosaics at 1 cm and 5 cm per pixel resolution. The data is georeferenced using RTK GNSS and processed to generate dense point clouds and fine-resolution surface models.

Use Cases

• Monitor vegetation health and structure based on multispectral imagery
• Generate high-resolution land cover maps based on RGB and multispectral orthomosaics
• Assess drone-based data collection protocols for ecosystem surveillance across TERN sites
• Fuse RGB and multispectral data for fine-scale environmental analysis

Strengths

• Uses standardized TERN Ecosystem Surveillance Drone Data Collection and Processing protocols
• Provides co-registered RGB (1 cm/pixel) and multispectral (5 cm/pixel) orthomosaics
• Data is georeferenced using DJI D-RTK2 base station and onboard GNSS RTK for high positional accuracy

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single site (Calperum Mallee) in 2022

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Collected during a field trial of an Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) using DJI Matrice 300 RTK with Zenmuse P1 and MicaSense RedEdge-MX/Dual sensors.

Time Range

2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-10 20:14:21.997242; freshness should be verified

Geography

Calperum Mallee SuperSite, Australia