Aerial laser scanning (ALS) dataset, Paracou, French Guiana, acquired on 11 September 2009.
The aerial laser scanning (ALS) dataset, acquired on 11 September 2009, covers the experimental station Paracou in French Guiana. 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 logged-over and unlogged forest, various forest heights and Pinot palm swamp forest .
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- Date (Creation)
- 2009-09-11
- Identifier
- CEBA_ALS_Paracou_11sep2009
- Credit
- SOCIÉTÉ ALTOA
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 INSPIRE themes
- Geounits
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- Americas
- South America
- France
- French Guiana
- GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
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- laser
- remote sensing
- vegetation cover
- Keywords
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- local coverage
- labex CEBA
- Theme
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- aerial laser scanning (ALS)
- Place
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- Paracou
- Use limitation
- Please get in touch with a point of contact.
- 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
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- Elevation
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- Begin date
- 2009-09-11
- End date
- 2009-09-11
- 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
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XYZTI
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ascii
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XYZTI
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ascii
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- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
- 1. All data was acquired by Altoa flying a helicopter between 120 and 220 above ground level. The embarked system was composed of a scanning laser altimeter with a rotating mirror mechanism (Riegl LMS-Q 140i-60). The wave length used was 1064 nm (NIR). The scanning angle was +/- 30°. The laser recorded the last reflected pulse with a nominal precision better than 0.1m. The mean point density is 5 points/m². 2. Delivrance of the data in x, y, z., time and intensity (or return pulse) 3. The data are stored in \\forestview01\BDLidar\Données Lidar\Paracou\2009-2\Données brutes\sept 2009. 4. Various further processing steps were carried out. Please get in touch with a point of contact
- File identifier
- 82ff441c-5893-46be-8a57-e0f351fe25db XML
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-01-28T06:01:44
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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