DSM Water Level: An UAV photogrammetry dataset for determination of river surface level using machine learning

Orthophotos and digital surface models (DSMs) obtained using UAV photogrammetry can be used to determine the water surface level of a river. However, this task is difficult due to disturbances of the water surface on DSMs caused by limitations of photogrammetric algorithms. Machine Learning can be used to correct these disturbances as well as to extract a single water surface elevation value. The presented dataset contains raw photogrammetric orthophotos and DSMs of areas representing parts of a small river and the corresponding DSMs with corrected water surface disturbances. Also a single ground truth value of mean water surface level for each DSM sample is provided. This allows the dataset to be used for supervised training of a neural network performing a denoising or regression task.

Acknowledgement: some of the samples were extracted from photogrammetric data acquired by Bandini et. al (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3519888)