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Allometric modelling of plant biomass from drone-acquired photographs: drone images, ground control marker coordinates and biomass data from 36 sites, 2016-2020

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Environmental Information Data Centre
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30 July 2026
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Summary

This dataset contains RGB photographs acquired from drone surveys. There are 741 harvest plots from 38 surveys at 36 sites around the world. Each site was approximately 1 ha in area. Included with the photographic images are the coordinates of ground control markers, biomass, taxonomic and location data for harvest plots and ancillary metadata. The observations can be used to obtain allometric size-biomass models. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R00062X/1 as part of the project 'Do dryland ecosystems control variability and recent trends in the land CO2 sink?' Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/1ec13364-cbc6-4ab5-a147-45a103853424

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2026
Harvest GUID
1ec13364-cbc6-4ab5-a147-45a103853424
Extent (Latitude)
90° to -90°
Extent (Longitude)
-180° to 180°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2020-10-23
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Cunliffe, A., Anderson, K., Boschetti, F., Graham, H., Brazier, R., Myers-Smith, I., Astor, T., Boer, M., Calvo, L., Clark, P., Cramer, M., Encinas-Lara, M., Escarzaga, S., Fernández-Guisuraga, J., Fisher, A., Gdulová, K., Gillespie, B., Griebel, A., Hanan, N., Hanggito, M., Haselberger, S., Havrilla, C., Ji, W., Karl, J., Kirchhoff, M., Kraushaar, S., Lyons, M., Marzolff, I., Mauritz, M., McIntire, C., Metzen, D., Méndez-Barroso, L., Power, S., Prošek, J., Sanz-Ablanedo, E., Sauer, K., Schulze-Brüninghoff, D., Šímová, P., Smit, J., Steele, C., Suárez-Seoane, S., Tweedie, C., Vargas, S., Villarreal, M., Visser, F., Wachendorf, M., Wirnsberger, H., Wojcikiewicz, R. (2020). Allometric modelling of plant biomass from drone-acquired photographs: drone images, ground control marker coordinates and biomass data from 36 sites, 2016-2020. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/1ec13364-cbc6-4ab5-a147-45a103853424
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian); University of León (author); USDA Agricultural Research Service (author); University of Queensland (author); University Frankfurt am Main (author); University of Worcester (author)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng