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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
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/325a4dde60d142049339e0c84816aac1
- Citation identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 325a4dde60d142049339e0c84816aac1
- Citation identifier
- doi / 10.5285/325a4dde60d142049339e0c84816aac1
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Unavailable
Brede, Benjamin
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Barbier, Nicolas
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Bartholomeus, Harm
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Derroire, Géraldine
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Lau, Alvaro
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Lusk, Daniel
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Herold, Martin
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Author NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Custodian NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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Disney, Mathias
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Principal investigator NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
pointofContact NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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ForestScan project
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GEO-TREES
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BIOMASS mission
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European Space Agency (ESA)
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Earth Observation (EO) calibration/validation
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Terrestrial LiDAR Scanning (TLS)
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Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle LiDAR Scanning (UAV-LS)
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Aerial LiDAR Scanning (ALS)
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Digital twins
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Above Ground Biomass (AGB) estimates
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Carbon estimates
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Forest structure
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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orthoimagery
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
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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
- Distribution format
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Name Version Raw and Point cloud
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/325a4dde60d142049339e0c84816aac1 CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/forestscan/data/french_guiana/paracou/TLSandUAV_ProductsandRaw_Paracou_2019 DOWNLOAD
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Protocol Linkage Name https://github.com/philwilkes/TLS2trees TLS2trees
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Protocol Linkage Name https://github.com/InverseTampere/TreeQSM TreeQSM
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Protocol Linkage Name https://paracou.cirad.fr/ Paracou Research Station website
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Protocol Linkage Name https://eo4society.esa.int/projects/forestscan/ ForestScan 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
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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
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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
Metadata
- File identifier
- 325a4dde60d142049339e0c84816aac1 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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ForestScan Collection
88a8620229014e0ebacf0606b302112d
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-03-09T03:27:07
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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