UAV image and ground data of two citrus 'Valencia' orange (Citrus sinensis [L.] Osbeck) rootstock trials

The data are UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and individual tree ground measurements collected from 2 citrus rootstock trials at the U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory Picos Road farm site, Ft. Pierce, Florida, USA located at 27.437115254946757, -80.42786069428246. The trees in both trials were Valencia sweet orange scion grafted onto various rootstock selections and varieties. The trials are designated as Valencia 5-16 and Valencia 17-28, which indicate the row numbers used for each trial. Valencia 5-16 includes 648 trees and Valencia 17-28 includes 643 trees. The ground data was taken for the 5-16 and 17-28 trials in 2020 and 2021, respectively. The UAV images were taken twice the same day, 5/12/2021, once each under partially sunny (images 27-176) and overcast conditions (images 177-327). A single flight of rows 5-28 for each condition captured both trials. Some of the images under the partially sunny condition show tree shadows when the sun was not obscured behind a cloud, whereas the images under the overcast condition flight have uniform lighting and no sun shadows. Each image is notated to designate the flight condition. For example, the image labeled DJI_0033_R5-R28_Valencia_sunny.JPG was taken from the partially sunny flight and the image labeled DJI_0183_R5-R28_Valencia_overcast.JPG was taken from the overcast flight. The UAV images were taken using a DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone using a side-overlap of 80% and a forward-overlap of 80% of the flight lines. The images are suitable for orthorectification. The images were red-green-blue (sRGB) in a 3:2 format with 5472 x 3648 pixels. The dataset is included in one folder that contains 305 files – 301 image files, 2 Excel spreadsheets (one for each trial) that contain the planting plan and ground measures, and 2 images with the rows and tree spaces labeled. The 2 labeled images are composite images constructed from the 150 images from the overcast set and were created to label rows and tree space numbers. The composite image is useful for general orientation and matching the individual trees to the ground data and other post-processing image analyses.