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Dataset

 

ForestScan project: Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle LiDAR Scanning (UAV-LS) data of FBRMS-02: Station d’Etudes des Gorilles et Chimpanzés, Lopé National Park, Gabon, June 2022, Version 2.0

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2025-10-13
DOI Publication Date: 2025-10-13
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 151 Files | 15GB

Abstract

This dataset contains point cloud data (a set of data points in a 3D coordinate system) which were collected using a RIEGL miniVUX1-DL LiDAR scanner mounted on a DELAIR DT26X Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The data was collected in June 2022 as part of the ForestScan project. The person responsible for the data collection was Dr. Iain McNicol from the University of Edinburgh, who collected and processed the data.

Citable as:  McNicol, I.M.; Mitchard, E.T.A.; Chavana-Bryant, C.; Wilkes, P.; Disney, M. (2025): ForestScan project: Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle LiDAR Scanning (UAV-LS) data of FBRMS-02: Station d’Etudes des Gorilles et Chimpanzés, Lopé National Park, Gabon, June 2022, Version 2.0. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 13 October 2025. doi:10.5285/a79fcb9ab0c443fc86d453cc064759b1. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/a79fcb9ab0c443fc86d453cc064759b1

Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ForestScan project, GEO-TREES, BIOMASS mission, European Space Agency (ESA), Earth Observation (EO) calibration/validation, Terrestrial LiDAR Scanning (TLS), Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle LiDAR Scanning (UAV-LS), Aerial LiDAR Scanning (ALS), Digital twins, Above Ground Biomass (AGB) estimates, Carbon estimates, Forest structure, Tree segmentation, 3D tree structure

Details

Previous Info:
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Previously used record identifiers:
No related previous identifiers.
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). Revised metadata was also provided by the project team. This dataset was reprocessed by Iain McNichol from an older version in order to correct the UTM metadata information in all files and to replace a corrupted file.

Data Quality:
Data quality control conducted by ForestScan project team
File Format:
.laz files, the LAZ (LASzip) file format is a compressed version of the LAS (LIDAR Aerial Survey)

Process overview

This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.
Output Description

None

No variables found.

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2022-06-01T00:00:00
End time:
2022-06-12T18:33:05
Geographic Extent

 
11.5918°
 
-0.1896°
 
-0.1896°
 
11.5918°