Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) RGB orthomosaic - Cockatoo Hills, Tasmania

This dataset contains UAV RGB imagery collected as part of a field trial to test the Uncrewed Aerial System to be used for the TERN Drone project. The UAS platform is DJI Matrice 300 RTK with 2 sensors: Zenmuse P1 (35 mm) RGB mapping camera and Micasense RedEdge-MX Dual (10-band multispectral sensor). P1 imagery were georeferenced using the onboard GNSS in M300 and the D-RTK 2 Mobile Station. Camera positions were post-processed using AUSPOS. Flight conducted between 10:26 am and 10:47 am AEDT at flying height 80 m, forward and side overlap set to 80%.

RGB orthomosaic (resolution: 1 cm. CRS: EPSG 7855 - GDA2020 MGA Zone 55) generated using Agisoft Metashape Professional, and a cloud optimised GeoTIFF was created using rio command line interface.

Credit
We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
This work was funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project. Data was collected and processed by the Department of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania.

Purpose
The main purpose of collecting this data was to test and establish data processing protocols for the M300 RTK system. The onboard GNSS system enables direct georeferencing, and potentially removes the need for ground control points. The purpose of generating this orthomosaic data product was to test the data upload capacity with TERN Data Services team.