Aerial LiDAR data from French Guiana, Paracou, November 2019

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.

Date (Publication): 2023-12-20T16:00:30

Date (Creation): 2023-12-20T16:00:30

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1d554ff41c104491ac3661c6f6f52aab

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 1d554ff41c104491ac3661c6f6f52aab

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/1d554ff41c104491ac3661c6f6f52aab

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Jackson, Toby D.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Vincent, Grégoire	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Coomes, David A.	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	Coomes, David A.	Unavailable	Principal investigator
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

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

ALS
Aerial Lidar
Biomass
Paracou
Frech Guiana

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 2019-11-15T00:00:00

End date: 2019-11-16T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Name	Version
.laz files

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

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1d554ff41c104491ac3661c6f6f52aab	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/forestscan/data/french_guiana/paracou/ALS-Paracou-2019	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://paracou.cirad.fr/	Paracou CIRAD site information

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://epsg.io/about	EPSG Co-ordinate System website

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	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

Hierarchy level: Dataset

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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).

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File identifier: 1d554ff41c104491ac3661c6f6f52aab XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: ForestScan Collection
88a8620229014e0ebacf0606b302112d

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-02-16T03:25:11

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

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

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