Geotagged images and lidar data were collected over Gabon, Africa, using NASA's Digital Mapping Camera paired with the Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS). The dataset was produced by NASA in collaboration with the European Space Agency for the AfriSAR campaign. It was last updated in March 2016.
Use Cases
- Estimate forest canopy height and structure from LVIS lidar waveforms.
- Fuse geotagged aerial imagery with lidar data for land cover classification.
- Validate satellite-derived biomass products using calibrated airborne sensor data from the AfriSAR campaign.
Strengths
- Data collected by NASA's calibrated LVIS airborne lidar instrument.
- Includes co-registered geotagged imagery from a Digital Mapping Camera.
- Supports the collaborative NASA and ESA AfriSAR mission objectives.
Limitations
- Data is from a single campaign in 2016, offering no temporal series.
- Geographic coverage is limited to specific flight lines over Gabon.
- Specific row counts, file sizes, and data formats are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- NASA campaign data distributed by NSIDC_CPRD.
- Collection Method
- Collected via airborne platform using paired Digital Mapping Camera and LVIS lidar altimeter.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Gabon, Africa.