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Description

This data set contains surface elevation data over Gabon, Africa. The measurements were taken by the NASA Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS), an airborne lidar scanning laser altimeter. The data were collected as part of a NASA campaign, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) mission AfriSAR.

Version Description

Initial release

Product Summary

Platforms
AIRCRAFT ,
B-200 ,
C-130 ,
DC-8 ,
G-V ,
HU-25C ,
P-3B ,
RQ-4
Instruments
ALTIMETERS ,
LASERS ,
LVIS
Projects
AfriSAR ,
LVIS
Spatial Extent

N: 1 S: -2 E: 12 W: 8

Spatial Reference System(s)
Multiple EPSG codes (see User Guide)
Location
GABON
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2016-02-20 to 2016-03-08
Temporal Resolution
Varies
Concept ID
C3155426044-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
119
Processing Level
2
Published
Science Keywords
Terrain Elevation

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Blair, J., & Hofton, M. (2018). AfriSAR LVIS L2 Geolocated Surface Elevation Product, Version 1 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/A0PMUXXVUYNH Date Accessed: 2026-10-04

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Assessment of the global Copernicus, NASADEM, ASTER and AW3D digital elevation models in Central and Southern Africa
  • Okolie, Chukwuma J., Mills, Jon P., Adeleke, Adedayo K., Smit, Julian L., Peppa, Maria V., Altunel, Arif O., Arungwa, Ikenna D.
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Estimation of the total dry aboveground biomass in the tropical forests of Congo Basin using optical, LiDAR, and radar data
  • Migolet, Pierre, Goita, Kalifa, Pambo, Aurelie Flore Koumba, Mambimba, Aboubakar Ndjoungui
The NASA AfriSAR campaign: Airborne SAR and lidar measurements of tropical forest structure and biomass in support of current and future space missions
  • Fatoyinbo, Temilola, Armston, John, Simard, Marc, Saatchi, Sassan, Denbina, Michael, Lavalle, Marco, Hofton, Michelle, Tang, Hao, Marselis, Suzanne, Pinto, Naiara, Hancock, Steven, Hawkins, Brian, Duncanson, Laura, Blair, Bryan, Hansen, Christy, Lou, Yunling, Dubayah, Ralph, Hensley, Scott, Silva, Carlos, Poulsen, John R., Labriere, Nicolas, Barbier, Nicolas, Jeffery, Kathryn, Kenfack, David, Herve, Memiaghe, Bissiengou, Pulcherie, Alonso, Alfonso, Moussavou, Ghislain, White, Lee T.J., Lewis, Simon, Hibbard, Kathleen
Improving forest height-to-biomass allometry with structure information: A TanDEM-X study
  • Choi, Changhyun, Pardini, Matteo, Heym, Michael, Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P.
Forest height estimation by means of TanDEM-X InSAR and waveform lidar data
  • Guliaev, Roman, Cazcarra-Bes, Victor, Pardini, Matteo, Papathanassiou, Konstantinos
UAVSAR Tomography for Vertical Profile Generation of Tropical Forest of Mondah National Park, Gabon
  • Asopa, Udit, Kumar, Shashi
Country-wide high-resolution vegetation height mapping with Sentinel-2
  • Lang, Nico, Schindler, Konrad, Wegner, Jan Dirk
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