This data release contains mapped UAS products and a spreadsheet of field plot observations for the paper: Havrilla, C.A. and M.L. Villarreal. 2024. Soil cover heterogeneity associated with biocrusts predicts patch-level plant diversity patterns. Landscape Ecology. Specifically the zipped folder contains a CSV of field data, classified Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS) imagery for 3 study plots and Soil Cover Heterogeneity maps generated from each of the classified maps.