Forest Degradation Experiment (FODEX), Ogooué-Ivindo (FGC-04), Gabon, pre-logging, January 2020

This dataset is comprised of raw data from the EC-funded FODEX project to collect full waveform terrestrial laser scanner (TLS). Plots were scanned prior to and following logging at different intensities to quantify the impact of logging intensity on rate of recovery of carbon stocks. Plots FGC-04 is located in Ogooué-Ivindo, Gabon and owned and managed by commercial logging company Rougier Ivindo.

TLS data was collected on a 10 m x 10 m grid where at each position the scanner captured data in an upright and tilted position. The scanner was set to an angular step of 0.04 degrees and 0.02 degrees for upright and tilted scans respectively. In between each scan position a set of retro-reflective targets were positioned to be used as tie-points between scans. For more information on TLS acquisition refer to Wilkes et al. (2017). Scan data was coregistered using RiSCAN Pro, the 4x4 rotation transformation matrices to transform the point cloud data into a common reference coordinate system can be found in the "matrix" directory.

Date (Publication): 2025-04-09T15:25:06

Date (Creation): 2025-04-09T15:25:06

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e0cb25ef2dff4a1f8bfd7222a9f7f870

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / e0cb25ef2dff4a1f8bfd7222a9f7f870

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Disney, Mathias	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Mitchard, Edward T.A.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Burt, Andrew	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	Mitchard, Edward T.A.	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

terrestrial laser scanner
FODEX
Gabon
Ogooué-Ivindo
FGC-04
Biomass

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery

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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.

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Language: English

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Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 2020-01-23T00:00:00

End date: 2020-01-24T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Point cloud data in RIEGL proprietary .rxp format, image data in .jpg format and matrix data in text file.

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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e0cb25ef2dff4a1f8bfd7222a9f7f870	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/tls/data/raw/gabon/FGC-04/2020-01-23.001.riproject	DOWNLOAD

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.04.030	Data acquisition considerations for Terrestrial Laser Scanning of forest plots; Phil Wilkes a b, Alvaro Lau c, Mathias Disney a b, Kim Calders a d, Andrew Burt a, Jose Gonzalez de Tanago c, Harm Bartholomeus c, Benjamin Brede c, Martin Herold c

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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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Metadata language: English

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Parent identifier: National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) partnered datasets
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Date stamp: 2026-01-12T03:26:36

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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