Aerial laser scanning (ALS) dataset, Paracou, French Guiana, acquired between 6 and 7 April 2009.

The aerial laser scanning (ALS) dataset, acquired between 6 and 7 April 2009, covers the experimental station Paracou in French Guiyana. More precisely, the dataset covers 9 plots totally (Paracou 4, Paracou 5, Paracou 7, Paracou 8, Paracou 9 - Paracou 12, and Paracou 14) and 4 plots partly (Paracou 3, Paracou 6, Paracou 13, and Paracou 15). The area includes exploited and non-exploited forest and Pinot palm. Ground control points are available. The Lidar data was acquired as part of the Guyafor project. It was previoulsy made available to the ESA Tropisar project. The Biomass project at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) used this dataset for the evaluation of forest structure estimation from radar data.

Date (Creation): 2009-04-06

Identifier: CEBA_ALS_Paracou_06apr2009

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
GUYAFOR

Theme

aerial laser scanning (ALS)

Place

Paracou

Use limitation: Acquisition cost of the data was covered by European Regional Development Fund, convention # 2907 dated 04 nov 2008. It is asked that the source of funding be acknowledged if the data is used in any publication. Please also inform gregoire.vincent@ird.fr of any publication which makes use of the Lidar data.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Agreement between potential user and point of contact.

Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Vector

Distance: 0.3 m

Metadata language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Elevation

Begin date: 2009-04-06

End date: 2009-04-07

Supplemental Information: Bibliography : Vincent. G.. F.Caron. D. Sabatier. and L. Blanc. 2012. LiDAR shows that higher forests have more slender trees. Bois et Forêts des Tropiques 314:51-56. Vincent. G.. D. Sabatier. L. Blanc. J. Chave. E. Weissenbacher. R. Pélissier. E. Fonty. J. F. Molino. and P. Couteron. 2012. Accuracy of small footprint airborne LiDAR in its predictions of tropical moist forest stand structure. Remote Sensing of Environment 125:23-33.

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

Distribution format

XYZTI ( ascii )

OnLine resource: ceba_als_paracou_09apr2009_dsm_dc_hs.kmz ( GLG:KML-2.0-http-get-map )

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: 1. All data was acquired by Altoa flying a helicopter between 120 and 220 m above ground level. The embarked system was composed of a scanning laser altimeter with a rotating mirror mechanism (Riegl LMS-280i), a GPS receiver coupled to a second GPS receiver on the ground, and an inertial measurement unit to record pitch, roll, and heading of aircraft. The wave length used was 0.9µm (NIR). The scanning angle was +/- 15°. The laser recorded the last reflected pulse with a nominal precision better than 0.1 meters. The mean point density is 6 points/m². 3. Deliverance of the data in x, y, z., red, green, blue, and intensity (or return pulse). 3. The tilled data are stored in \\forestview01\BDLidar\Données Lidar\Paracou\2009\Données brutes. 4. Various further processing steps were carried out. Please get in touch with a point of contact.