Aerial laser scanning (ALS) dataset, Paracou, French Guiana, acquired on 20 October 2015.

The aerial laser scanning (ALS) dataset acquired on 20 October 2015 covers the experimental station Paracou in French Guiana. The coverage includes all Guyafor and Guyaflux plots completely with logged-over, unlogged and swamp forest ("Pinot" or "Açai").

Date (Creation): 2016-05-04

Identifier: CEBA_ALS_Paracou_20oct2015

Credit: SOCIÉTÉ ALTOA

Credit: Data acquisition funded by Office national des forêts (ONF)

Status: Completed

Point of contact

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

Point of contact

Office national des forêts (ONF) - Descroix, Laurent

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

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

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

Aggregate Datasetindentifier: 3bd8f70c-642b-4623-b38a-641c568b2c41

Association Type: Cross reference

Initiative Type: Mission

Spatial representation type: Vector

Distance: 0.14 m

Metadata language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Elevation

Begin date: 2015-10-20

End date: 2015-10-20

Reference system identifier: EPSG / RGFG95 / UTM zone 22N (EPSG:2972) / 7.9

Distribution format

LAS files ( 1.2 )

OnLine resource: report_lasinfo.txt ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Report produced using lasinfo from lastools software

OnLine resource: Rapport_Mission_Altoa_Paracou_20oct2015.pdf ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
ALTOA Mission Report

OnLine resource: ceba_als_paracou_20oct2015_dsm_dc_hs_1m.kmz ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Google Earth KMZ

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: 1. See attached report from ALTOA for technical precisions 2. Delivery of the data in LAS 1.2 format. 3. The tiled las data are stored in \\forestview01\ALS\Paracou\2015 4. Various further processing steps were carried out. Another lidar acquisition was conducted on the 05/10/16 with slightly different acquisition parameters. Please get in touch with a point of contact