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Description

This dataset provides the complete catalog of point cloud data collected during LiDAR surveys over selected forest research sites across the Amazon rainforest in Brazil between 2008 and 2018 for the Sustainable Landscapes Brazil Project. Flight lines were selected to overfly key field research sites in the Brazilian states of Acre, Amazonas, Bahia, Goias, Mato Grosso, Para, Rondonia, Santa Catarina, and Sao Paulo. The point clouds have been georeferenced, noise-filtered, and corrected for misalignment of overlapping flight lines. They are provided in 1 km2 tiles. The data were collected to measure forest canopy structure across Amazonian landscapes to monitor the effects of selective logging on forest biomass and carbon balance, and forest recovery over time.

Product Summary

Platforms
AIRCRAFT
Instruments
LIDAR
Projects
CMS
Spatial Extent

N: -1.57947 S: -26.6965 E: -39.058 W: -68.2989

Location
BRAZIL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2008-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2398128915-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
3154
Processing Level
1B
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Lidar ,
Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure ,
Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM) ,
Canopy Characteristics

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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dos-Santos, M. N., Keller, M. M., & Morton, D. C. (2019). LiDAR Surveys over Selected Forest Research Sites, Brazilian Amazon, 2008-2018 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1644 Date Accessed: 2026-10-05

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  • Ersoy, Pnar, Ersahin, Mustafa, Unal, Ece, Arslan, Dorukhan, Karamustafa, Ebubekir
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Impacts of fire on canopy structure and its resilience depend on successional stage in Amazonian secondary forests
  • Vedovato, Laura B., Aragao, Luiz E. O. C., Almeida, Danilo R. A., Bartholomew, David C., Assis, Mauro, Dalagnol, Ricardo, Gorgens, Eric B., SilvaJunior, Celso H. L., Ometto, Jean P., PontesLopes, Aline, Silva, Carlos A., Valbuena, Ruben, Feldpausch, Ted R.
Evaluating GEDI for quantifying forest structure across a gradient of degradation in Amazonian rainforests
  • Doyle, Emily L, Graham, Hugh A, Boulton, Chris A, Lenton, Timothy M, Feldpausch, Ted R, Cunliffe, Andrew M
Tall Bornean forests experience higher canopy disturbance rates than those in the eastern Amazon or Guiana shield
  • Jackson, Toby D., Fischer, Fabian J., Vincent, Gregoire, Gorgens, Eric B., Keller, Michael, Chave, Jerome, Jucker, Tommaso, Coomes, David A.
VR Reconstruction of Amazonian Geoglyphs Using LiDAR Data
  • Zhou, Albert, Wang, Fang, Walker, Robert S., Sturm, Mike, Nalmas, Amith, Murrell, Scottie
Very high resolution canopy height maps from RGB imagery using self-supervised vision transformer and convolutional decoder trained on aerial lidar
  • Tolan, Jamie, Yang, Hung-I, Nosarzewski, Benjamin, Couairon, Guillaume, Vo, Huy V., Brandt, John, Spore, Justine, Majumdar, Sayantan, Haziza, Daniel, Vamaraju, Janaki, Moutakanni, Theo, Bojanowski, Piotr, Johns, Tracy, White, Brian, Tiecke, Tobias, Couprie, Camille
A biomass map of the Brazilian Amazon from multisource remote sensing
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Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures
  • Zeng, Yelu, Hao, Dalei, Park, Taejin, Zhu, Peng, Huete, Alfredo, Myneni, Ranga, Knyazikhin, Yuri, Qi, Jianbo, Nemani, Ramakrishna R., Li, Fa, Huang, Jianxi, Gao, Yongyuan, Li, Baoguo, Ji, Fujiang, Kohler, Philipp, Frankenberg, Christian, Berry, Joseph A., Chen, Min
Measuring Understory Fire Effects from Space: Canopy Change in Response
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  • Cushman, K. C., Burley, John T., Imbach, Benedikt, Saatchi, Sassan S., Silva, Carlos E., Vargas, Orlando, Zgraggen, Carlo, Kellner, James R.
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  • Longo, Marcos, Saatchi, Sassan, Keller, Michael, Bowman, Kevin, Ferraz, Antonio, Moorcroft, Paul R., Morton, Douglas C., Bonal, Damien, Brando, Paulo, Burban, Benoit, Derroire, Geraldine, dosSantos, Maiza N., Meyer, Victoria, Saleska, Scott, Trumbore, Susan, Vincent, Gregoire
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