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ForestScan Project: Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle LiDAR Scanning (UAV-LS) and Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) data of FBRMS-01: Paracou, French Guiana plot 6, 10th October to 15th November 2019
This dataset contains LiDAR scanning derived products (raw scanner data, geo-located point clouds, individual 3D tree models) collected over the north-eastern part (200 m x 200 m) of FBRMS-01: Paracou, French Guiana plot 6. The campaign took place from the 10th of October to the 15th of November 2019. Terrestrial LiDAR Scanning (TLS) was conducted on a regular grid with spacing of 10 m with a RIEGL VZ-400 scanner and retro-reflective targets for scan registration. Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle Laser Scanning (UAV-LS) was conducted with a RIEGL Ricopter with VUX-SYS VUX-1UAV system with varying flight heights and flight directions.
The TLS point clouds were collected to produce explicit 3D models of individual trees and subsequently estimate their above-ground biomass (AGB). The UAV-LS point clouds were collected to test scanner settings and inspect point clouds properties, in particular with regard to their suitability to model individual trees and their AGB.
The campaign was conducted by researchers Benjamin Brede, Harm Bartholomeus and Alvaro Lau of the Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing of Wageningen University & Research (The Netherlands) with support from Nicolas Barbier of AMAP Lab (Botany and Modeling of Plant Architecture and Vegetation).
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-03-28T15:23:30
- Date (Creation)
- 2025-03-28T15:23:30
- Identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 325a4dde60d142049339e0c84816aac1
- Identifier
- doi / 10.5285/325a4dde60d142049339e0c84816aac1
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
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- dataset Dataset
- Keywords
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- 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
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- orthoimagery
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 2019-10-10T00:00:00
- End date
- 2019-11-15T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Raw and Point cloud
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Raw and Point cloud
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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TLS2trees
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TreeQSM
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Paracou Research Station website
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ForestScan website
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- dataset Dataset
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data were produced by the project team and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). The UCL team provided revised metadata for the catalogue record
- File identifier
- 325a4dde60d142049339e0c84816aac1 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- ForestScan Collection 88a8620229014e0ebacf0606b302112d
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-16T03:26:26
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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