Lidar was captured for Auckland Council by AAM New Zealand between September 2016 through to June 2017. The original dataset was generated by AAM New Zealand and their subcontractors. The survey area covers the southern Auckland suburbs and regions. Data management and distribution is by Land Information New Zealand.

Lidar was captured of the Westport area by Aerial Surveys in 2020. The dataset was generated by Aerial Surveys and their subcontractors. The survey area includes Westport and the surrounding area and is part of the all-of-West Coast regional lidar survey, Data management and distribution is by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand. Co-funding was provided by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Provincial Development Unit.

Lidar was captured for Auckland Council by Aerial Surveys between August 2016 to August 2018. The dataset was generated by Aerial Surveys and their subcontractors. The survey area includes Auckland CBD, Great Barrier Island, Little Barrier Island, North Shore, Waiheke Island, Wellsford, Whangaparaoa, Whatipu, as well as the surrounding area. Data management and distribution is by Land Information New Zealand.

LiDAR was captured for the Otago Regional Council by AAM Ltd on the 24 June 2021. The dataset was generated by AAM and their subcontractors. Data management and distribution is by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand.

This dataset is a collection of drone lidar data from plots across Australia (AusPlots, SuperSites, Cal/Val sites to be established in the future). The aim of these drone surveys is to capture vegetation structure. The standardised data collection and data processing protocols developed in 2022 are based on the DJI Matrice 300 (M300) RTK drone platform. Lidar sensor DJI Zenmuse L1 is used with DJI Matrice 300 (M300) RTK platform to capture RGB colourised 3D point clouds. The data is georeferenced using the onboard GNSS in M300 and the D-RTK 2 base station. DJI Terra software was used to generate 3D point clouds from the raw lidar data. The protocols include flight planning and data collection guidelines for a 100 x 100 m TERN plot, and the processing workflow used on DJI Terra. Mission-specific metadata for each plot is provided in the imagery/metadata folder (please refer to the imagery collection). The Drone Data Collection and Lidar Processing protocols can be found at https://www.tern.org.au/field-survey-apps-and-protocols/ .