Dataset
Aerial LiDAR data from French Guiana, Paracou, November 2019
Abstract
This dataset contains Aerial LiDAR (also known as airborne laser scanning, ALS) data in .las format collected over tropical forests in Paracou in French Guiana in 2019. The data were collected by Altoa using a BN2 aircraft flying at approximately 900 m altitude at a speed of approximately 180 km/hr. Trajectory files in txt format giving detailed flight data are included with the archived dataset. The LiDAR instrume was a RIEGL LMS-Q780 and used a minimum pulse density of 15 points/sqm. The lateral overlap between two flight lines was 80% with a scan angle of +/- 30 degrees. The data coordinate reference system used with the data files is epsg 2972 more details of this and of the Paracou site can be found in the documentation section.
Details
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| Access rules: |
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
Data were produced by the project team and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). |
| Data Quality: |
Data were validated by Toby Jackson project team and provided to CEDA for archival.
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| File Format: |
.laz files
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Related Documents
| Paracou CIRAD site information |
| EPSG Co-ordinate System website |
Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| RIEGL LMS-Q780 | Deployed on: BN2 Aircraft |
| Output Description | None |
No variables found.
Temporal Range
2019-11-15T00:00:00
2019-11-16T00:00:00
Geographic Extent
5.2804° |
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-52.0326° |
-52.9212° |
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5.2628° |