ForestScan: Aerial Laser Scanning (ALS) of FBRMS-01: Paracou, French Guiana, November 2022

This Aerial Laser Scanning (ALS) campaign was conducted in November 2022. The ALS data corresponding to plots FG5c1, FG6c2, FG8c4 and IRD-CNES also scanned by Terrestrial LiDAR Scanning (TLS) in October or November 2022 as part of the ForestScan Project are provided in four separate laz files.

The covered area: 3*2.16 ha + 1*1.44 ha; Pulse density: ~200 m2; Scanner type: VQ 780II RIEGL; Scanner wavelength: 1064 nm; Beam divergence: <=0.25 mrad (1/e2); Vehicle: Airplane BN2; Operator: Altoa. Acquisition parameters: swath angle: +/-20 degrees; PRR (channel type): ~ 1000 kHz; Ground footprint size of pulse: ~0.16 m; Flight height: 650m terrain follow mode (AGL); Acquisition mode: Full waveform, RGB camera on board but no orthomosaïc made.

Date (Publication): 2025-03-28T14:45:28

Date (Creation): 2025-03-28T14:45:28

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/7bef89a9dc404683a46642625a024a4b

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 7bef89a9dc404683a46642625a024a4b

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/7bef89a9dc404683a46642625a024a4b

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
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	Chave, Jerome	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

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Update scope: Dataset

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 structure

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Language: English

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Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 2022-11-23T00:00:00

End date: 2022-11-24T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Name	Version
Storage format is las 1.2 (terrestrial laser scanner)

Distributor contact

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/7bef89a9dc404683a46642625a024a4b	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/forestscan/data/french_guiana/paracou/ALS-Paracou-2022-PerPlot	DOWNLOAD

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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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Conformance result

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) by Gregoire Vincent.

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File identifier: 7bef89a9dc404683a46642625a024a4b XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: ForestScan Collection
88a8620229014e0ebacf0606b302112d

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-02-05T03:27:00

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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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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