L1A - Discrete airborne LiDAR transects collected by EBA in the Brazilian Amazon (Acre e Rondônia)
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description: In two campaigns (2016/2017 and 2017/2018), we collected LiDAR transects across the Brazilian Amazon. Sometransects were randomly distributed over the forest and secondary forest, some were randomly distributed over the deforestation arch, and others overlapped field plots to allow for model calibration. Each transect covered a minimum of 375 hectares (12.5 km x 300 m) and was surveyed by emitting full-waveform laser pulses from a Trimble Harrier 68i airborne sensor (Trimble; Sunnyvale, CA) aboard a Cessna aircraft (model 206). The average point density was set at four returns per m, the field of view was 30, the flying altitude was 600 m, and the transect width on the ground was approximately 494 m. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data were collected on a dual-frequency receiver (L1/L2). The pulse footprint was below 30 cm, based on a divergence angle between 0.1 and 0.3 milliradians. Horizontal and vertical accuracy were controlled to be under 1 m and 0.5 m, respectively. We used the PRODES forest mask (2015) and secondary vegetation (forest regrown after complete forest clearing) from TerraClass (2014) to distribute the transects. To calibrate and validate the airborne LiDAR predictions of biomass, we intentionally overlapped some transects with field plots from 15 research partners. In 2017/2018, we complemented the expanded the transects survey improving the representation of secondary forest based on TerraClass (INPE, 2014). To calibrate and validate the airborne LiDAR predictions of biomass. The metadata about each transect is included in the shapefile hosted at Zenodo repository (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4968706). To position the transects, we randomly generated center points with X, Y coordinates and assigned a random alpha slope angle to each point. We visually inspected the start points to ensure they were within the forest or secondary vegetation mask. If the start point was not entirely within a forest, as seen by satellite image, we dis…
publication date: 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z
author: Jean P. Ometto
author: Eric Bastos Görgens
author: Francisca Rocha de Souza Pereira
author: Luciane Sato
author: Mauro Lúcio Rodrigues Assis
author: Roberta Cantinho
author: Marcos Longo
author: Aline Daniele Jacon
author: Michael Keller
Zenodo ID: 7689909
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7689909
copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
dataset version identifier: v20230301
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI dataset profile
description: Dataset published at Zenodo repository.