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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
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.

Copy Citation

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: 2026-04-29

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Advancing Scalable Methods for Surface Water Monitoring: A Novel Integration of Satellite Observations and Machine Learning Techniques Renshaw, Megan, Magruder, Lori A. Lidar, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Canopy Characteristics
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 Plant Phenology, Canopy Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Lidar, Topography, VEGETATION HEIGHT, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), VIEWING GEOMETRY, Terrain Elevation, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Biomass, Shrubland/Scrub, Forests, Grasslands
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. Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Lidar, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Canopy Characteristics
TROLL 4.0: representing water and carbon fluxes, leaf phenology, and intraspecific trait variation in a mixed-species individual-based forest dynamics modelPart 2 ... Schmitt, Sylvain, Fischer, Fabian J., Ball, James G. C., Barbier, Nicolas, Boisseaux, Marion, Bonal, Damien, Burban, Benoit, Chen, Xiuzhi, Derroire, Geraldine, Lichstein, Jeremy W., Nemetschek, Daniela, Restrepo-Coupe, Natalia, Saleska, Scott, Sellan, Giacomo, Verley, Philippe, Vincent, Gregoire, Ziegler, Camille, Chave, Jerome, Marechaux, Isabelle Lidar, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Canopy Characteristics, Litter Characteristics, Crown, Forests, Vegetation Species
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. Lidar, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Canopy Characteristics
VR Reconstruction of Amazonian Geoglyphs Using LiDAR Data Zhou, Albert, Wang, Fang, Walker, Robert S., Sturm, Mike, Nalmas, Amith, Murrell, Scottie Lidar, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Canopy Characteristics
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 Lidar, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Canopy Characteristics, Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Terrain Elevation
A biomass map of the Brazilian Amazon from multisource remote sensing Ometto, Jean Pierre, Gorgens, Eric Bastos, de Souza Pereira, Francisca Rocha, Sato, Luciane, de Assis, Mauro Lucio Rodrigures, Cantinho, Roberta, Longo, Marcos, Jacon, Aline Daniele, Keller, Michael Lidar, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Canopy Characteristics
Measuring Understory Fire Effects from Space: Canopy Change in Response East, Alyson, Hansen, Andrew, Armenteras, Dolors, Jantz, Patrick, Roberts, David W. Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Lidar, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Canopy Characteristics
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 Lidar, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Canopy Characteristics
The Latent Dirichlet Allocation model applied to airborne LiDAR data: a case study on mapping forest degradation associated with fragmentation and fire in the ... Valle, Denis, Silva, Carlos Alberto, Longo, Marcos, Brando, Paulo Lidar, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Canopy Characteristics
Impact of a tropical forest blowdown on aboveground carbon balance Cushman, K. C., Burley, John T., Imbach, Benedikt, Saatchi, Sassan S., Silva, Carlos E., Vargas, Orlando, Zgraggen, Carlo, Kellner, James R. Lidar, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Canopy Characteristics
Impacts of Degradation on Water, Energy, and Carbon Cycling of the 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 Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation, Snow/Ice, Snow Depth, Snow Melt, Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Atmospheric Radiation, Radiative Flux, Radiative Forcing, Surface Radiative Properties, Albedo, Emissivity, Cloud Properties, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Skin Temperature, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Skin Temperature, Geopotential Height, Altitude, Surface Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Cloud Top Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Total Ozone, Heat Flux, Water Vapor, Precipitation Rate, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction, Lidar, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Canopy Characteristics
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