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Topographic point cloud of the Los Padres Reservoir delta, Carmel River valley, CA, 2017-11-01

This portion of the data release presents a topographic point cloud of the exposed Los Padres Reservoir delta where the Carmel River enters the reservoir. The point cloud was derived from structure-from-motion (SfM) processing of aerial imagery collected with an unoccupied aerial system (UAS) on 2017-11-01. The point cloud has 115,819,907 points with an average point density of 611 points per-square meter. Each point in the point cloud contains an explicit horizontal and vertical coordinate, color, intensity, and classification. Classification was performed on the point cloud to identify ground and low-noise points within the point cloud. Additional portions of the point cloud within the horizontal extent of the reservoir water surface were classified as water points (class 9) using a polygon digitized from the orthomosaic imagery also derived from this survey. Water areas on the exposed delta surface including ponded water and areas covered by the Carmel River were not classified as water. The raw imagery used to create these point clouds was acquired using a UAS fitted with a Ricoh GR II digital camera featuring a global shutter. The UAS was flown on pre-programmed autonomous flight lines spaced to provide approximately 70 percent overlap between images from adjacent lines. The camera was triggered at 1 Hz using a built-in intervalometer. The UAS was flown at an approximate altitude of 100 meters above ground level (AGL), resulting in a nominal ground-sample-distance (GSD) of 2.6 centimeters per pixel. The raw imagery was geotagged using positions from the UAS onboard single-frequency autonomous GPS. Twenty temporary ground control points (GCPs) consisting of small square tarps with black-and-white cross patterns were distributed throughout the area to establish survey control. The GCP positions were measured using real-time kinematic (RTK) GPS, using corrections from a GPS base station located on a benchmark designated SFML, located approximately 1 kilometer from the study area. The point cloud is formatted in LAZ format (LAS 1.2 specification).

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Author(s) Joshua Logan orcid, Amy East orcid
Publication Date 2023-01-11
Beginning Date of Data 2017-11-01
Ending Date of Data 2017-11-01
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9J9CHOH
Citation Logan, J., and East, A., 2023, Topographic point cloud of the Los Padres Reservoir delta, Carmel River valley, CA, 2017-11-01: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9J9CHOH.
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