ForestScan project: Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle LiDAR Scanning (UAV-LS) data of FBRMS-02: Station d’Etudes des Gorilles et Chimpanzés, Lopé National Park, Gabon, June 2022, Version 2.0

This dataset contains point cloud data (a set of data points in a 3D coordinate system) which were collected using a RIEGL miniVUX1-DL LiDAR scanner mounted on a DELAIR DT26X Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The data was collected in June 2022 as part of the ForestScan project. The person responsible for the data collection was Dr. Iain McNicol from the University of Edinburgh, who collected and processed the data.

Date (Publication): 2025-10-13T07:24:56

Date (Creation): 2025-10-13T07:24:56

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a79fcb9ab0c443fc86d453cc064759b1

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / a79fcb9ab0c443fc86d453cc064759b1

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/a79fcb9ab0c443fc86d453cc064759b1

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	McNicol, Iain M.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Mitchard, Edward T.A.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Chavana-Bryant, Cecilia	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Wilkes, Phil	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Disney, Mathias	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

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

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
Tree segmentation
3D tree structure

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 2022-06-01T00:00:00

End date: 2022-06-12T18:33:05

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
.laz files, the LAZ (LASzip) file format is a compressed version of the LAS (LIDAR Aerial Survey)

Distributor contact

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/a79fcb9ab0c443fc86d453cc064759b1	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/forestscan/data/gabon/lope/ForestScan_Lope_UAV_LS_new	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

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

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). Revised metadata was also provided by the project team. This dataset was reprocessed by Iain McNichol from an older version in order to correct the UTM metadata information in all files and to replace a corrupted file.

Metadata

File identifier: a79fcb9ab0c443fc86d453cc064759b1 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: ForestScan Collection
88a8620229014e0ebacf0606b302112d

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-12-04T03:26:08

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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