Airborne LiDAR Data for 100,000 Hectares of Borneo Forest

Late 2014 airborne LiDAR data covers approximately 100,000 hectares of forested land across 90 sites in Kalimantan, Indonesia, on Borneo. The dataset was collected by ORNL_CLOUD as part of an effort to establish a national forest monitoring system for Indonesia. It supports a combination of remote sensing and ground-based forest carbon inventory approaches.

Use Cases

• Forest carbon stock estimation using LiDAR-derived canopy height and structure metrics.
• Developing digital elevation and terrain models for topographic analysis.
• Calibrating and validating satellite-based remote sensing products for forest monitoring.
• Assessing forest structure and biomass across a large, contiguous tropical landscape.

Strengths

• Covers a large spatial extent of approximately 100,000 hectares.
• Data collected systematically across 90 distinct forest sites.
• Supports a specific national policy goal for forest monitoring in Indonesia.

Limitations

• Specific column names and data structure are not documented in the provided sources.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date (2014-11-30 vs. 2026-03-13), suggesting potential metadata inconsistencies.
• License is ambiguously listed as 'other-license-specified' or 'None', requiring further verification.

Provenance

Source

ORNL_CLOUD

Collection Method

Airborne LiDAR data collection.

Time Range

late 2014

Freshness

2026-03 13 18:25:15.931216

Geography

90 sites in Kalimantan, Indonesia, on the island of Borneo.