Aerial laser scanning (ALS) dataset, Paracou, French Guiana, acquired in October 2004.

The aerial laser scanning (ALS) dataset, acquired on October 2004, covers the experimental station Paracou in French Guiyana. More precisely, the dataset covers all Paracou plots totally except of plot 15 that is only covered partly. The area includes exploited and non-exploited forest and Pinot palm. Ground echoes are available as well as a digital terrain model (DTM), a digital surface model (DSM) , and a digital canopy model (DCM) with a 1 meter resolution.

Date (Creation): 2004-10-01

Identifier: CEBA_ALS_Paracou_xxoct2004

Credit: SOCIÉTÉ ALTOA

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) - Vincent, Gregoire

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 INSPIRE themes

Elevation

Geounits

Americas
South America
France
French Guiana

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

laser
remote sensing
vegetation cover

Keywords

local coverage
labex CEBA

Theme

aerial laser scanning (ALS)

Place

Paracou

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Access constraints: Other restrictions

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Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Vector

Distance: 0.3 m

Metadata language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Elevation

Begin date: 2004-10-01

End date: 2004-10-31

Supplemental Information: Bibliography : Vincent. G.. E. Weissenbacher. D. Sabatier. L. Blanc. C. Proisy. and P. Couteron. 2010. Détection des variations de structure de peuplements en forêt dense tropicale humide par Lidar aéroporté (Small foot-print airborn LiDAR proves highly sensitive to changes in structure of moist tropical forest). Revue Française de Photogrammétrie et Télédétection 191:42-50

Reference system identifier: EPSG / WGS 84 / UTM zone 22N (EPSG:32622) / 7.9

Distribution format

Text ( 1 )

OnLine resource: CEBA_ALS_Paracou_xxoct2004.kmz ( GLG:KML-2.0-http-get-map )
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: 1. All data was acquired by Altoa flying a helicopter. The embarked system was composed of a scanning laser altimeter with a rotating mirror mechanism (Riegl LMS-Q140i-60 ). The wave length used was 950 nm (NIR). The laser recorded the last reflected pulse. The point density is 4 points/m². 2. Deliverance of the data in time, x, y, z, intensity, flight line (Paracou.txyzil) 3. The data are stored in \\forestview01\BDLidar\Données Lidar\Paracou\2004\Données brutes\. 4. Various further processing steps were carried out. Please get in touch with a point of contact