ForestScan Project: Multiple Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle LiDAR Scanning (UAV-LS) data acquisitions of FBRMS-01: Paracou, French Guiana, plots 4, 5, 6, 8, IRD-CNES and Flux-Tower area, October 2019

This dataset contains complete merged point clouds (.laz) per acquisition flight, derived raster products in .tif georeferenced format, Digital surface models (.DSM), Canopy height models (.CHM) and Digital terrain models (.DTM). The data is from multiple drone flights over different plots in Paracou French Guiana. All products are the following projection EPSG:2972 RGFG95 and UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) zone 22N. Different scanning scenarios should allow for sensitivity analyses with respect to:

(i) scanning altitude (above the LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) derived DTM, either in terrain follow mode (AGL) or at constant altitude (AMSL)

(ii) scanning pattern main orientation

Over Plot 6 (P6): two different scan altitudes are available (80m AGL and 145m AMSL ~ 125 AGL), as well as different flight pattern main directions (75°, 345°, 120°, 165°)

Over Plots 4 and 5 (P4 & P5): altitude = 110m AMSL ~ 90m AGL, flight directions = 345°

Over PCNES & Tower: altitude = 105m AMSL ~ 80m AGL and 80m AGL, flight directions = 0° and 90°

Over P8: altitude = 105m AMSL ~ 80m AGL, flight directions = 75° and 345°

Information on the individual drone flights and directory location can be found below in the following format:

Country\Zone\Pilot\Scanner\Date\Flight\Flight (delivery)\Freq mirror rot (Hz)\Interline(m)\Direction (°)\Speed(m/s)\Alt(m)

directory location- XX/XX

French Guiana\Paracou \P6\NB\VX20021\18/10/2019\YS-20191018-124006\V1\20\20\345\5t80 AGL

directory location - CIRAD_Plot_P6_80mAGL/V1

French Guiana\Paracou\P6\NB\VX20021\18/10/2019\tYS-20191018-131043\V2\20\20\345\5\80 AGL

directory location - CIRAD_Plot_P6_80mAGL/V2

French Guiana\Paracou\P6\NB\VX20021\18/10/2019\YS-20191018-183057\V3\20\20\120\t5\80 AGL

directory location - CIRAD_Plot_P6_80mAGL/V3

French Guiana\Paracou\P6\NB\VX20021\18/10/2019\YS-20191018-185416\V4\20\20\120\5\80 AGL

directory location - CIRAD_Plot_P6_80mAGL/V4

French Guiana\Paracou\P6\NB\VX20021\19/10/2019\YS-20191019-190345\V5\20\20\75\5\80 AGL

directory location - CIRAD_Plot_P6_80mAGL/ V5

French Guiana\Paracou\P6\NB\VX20021\18/10/2019\YS-20191018-200932\V1\20\20\165\5\145 amsl

directory location - CIRAD_Plot_P6_145_amsl/V1

French Guiana\Paracou\P6\NB\VX20021\19/10/2019\YS-20191019-115917\V2\20\20\75\5\145 amsl

directory location - CIRAD_Plot_P6_145_amsl/V2

French Guiana\Paracou\P4&5\NB\VX20021\19/10/2019\YS-20191019-172347\20\50\345\5\100 amsl

directory location - CIRAD_Plot_4_5/

French Guiana\Paracou\Tower\NB\VX20021\19/10/2019\YS-20191019-162557\V1\20\50\0\5\80 AGL

directory location - IRD_CNES_Plot1_and_Flux_Tower_area/V1

French Guiana\Paracou\Tower\NB\VX20021\19/10/2019\YS-20191019-181021\V2\20\50\90\5\105 amsl

directory location - IRD_CNES_Plot1_and_Flux_Tower_area/V2

French Guiana\Paracou\P8\NB\VX20021\20/10/2019\YS-20191020-113907\20\50\75&345\5\105 amsl

directory location - CIRAD_Plot_P8

The data was gathered to support the systematic collection and understanding of reference data for biomass product validation. The CEOS Good Practices Guideline can be found in the documentation section.

Date (Publication): 2025-02-24T10:41:35

Date (Creation): 2025-02-24T10:41:35

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/005f2e0aebc24ed98a9772a0ba3798e2

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 005f2e0aebc24ed98a9772a0ba3798e2

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/005f2e0aebc24ed98a9772a0ba3798e2

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Barbier, Nicolas	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Vincent, Grégoire	Unavailable	Author
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Disney, Mathias	Unavailable	Principal investigator
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

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Keywords

ForestScan project
GEO-TREES
BIOMASS mission
European Space Agency (ESA)
Earth Observation (EO) calibration/validation
Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle LiDAR Scanning (UAV-LS)
Aerial LiDAR Scanning (ALS)
Digital twins
Forest structureracou
Forest

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Begin date: 2019-10-19T00:00:00

End date: 2019-10-20T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Complete merged point clouds (.laz) per acquisition flight and derived raster products in .tif georeferenced format (Digital surface model - DSM; Canopy height model - CHM; Digital terrain model - DTM)

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/005f2e0aebc24ed98a9772a0ba3798e2	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/forestscan/data/french_guiana/paracou/UAV_Paracou_2023_MultiplePlots/AMAP_Paracou_drone/	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://eo4society.esa.int/projects/forestscan/	ForestScan website

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://ceos.org/document_management/Meetings/SIT-Technical-Workshop/2020-SIT-Tech-Workshop/Documents/CEOS_WGCV_LPV_Biomass_Protocol_Draft_Final.pdf	Global Aboveground Biomass Product Validation Best Practice Protocol

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	https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2025-67/	Chavana-Bryant, C., Wilkes, P., Yang, W., Burt, A., Vines, P., Bennett, A.C., Pickavance, G., Cooper, D.L.M., Lewis, S.L., Phillips, O.L., Brede, B., Lau, A., Herold, M., McNicol, I.M., Mitchard, E.T.A., Barbier, N., Vincent, G., Coomes, D.A., Jackson, T., Makaga, L., Milamizokou Napo, H.O., Ngomanda, A., Ntie, S., Medjibe, V., Dimbonda, P., Soenens, L., Daelemans, V., Bartholomeus, H., Majalap, N., Nilus, R., Labrière, N., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Qie, L., Derroire, G., Proux, L., Abernethy, K., Jeffery, K., Clewley, D., Moffat, D., Scipal, K. and Disney, M. ForestScan: a unique multiscale dataset of tropical forest structure across 3 continents including terrestrial, UAV and airborne LiDAR and in-situ forest census data. ESSD. 2025

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

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). Revised metadata was provided by the UCL project team

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Parent identifier: ForestScan Collection
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Date stamp: 2025-12-14T03:27:39

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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