ABoVE: Terrestrial Lidar Scanning Forest-Tundra Ecotone, Brooks Range, Alaska, 2016

Description

This dataset provides terrestrial lidar scanning (TLS) point cloud data collected at 10 research plots along the forest-tundra ecotone (FTE) in the Brooks Range of Alaska, south of Chandalar Shelf and Atigun Pass on the east side of the Dalton Highway. Data were collected in mid-June 2016. Data were acquired for each plot from multiple scan positions with a Leica ScanStation C10 green wavelength laser instrument. After processing the point spacing is < 1 cm. TLS enables resolution of 3-dimensional landscape features that can be used to derive ecologically important metrics of canopy structure and surface topography at high spatial resolution.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1782
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1782
33 ABoVE: Terrestrial Lidar Scanning Forest-Tundra Ecotone, Brooks Range, Alaska, 2016: LiDAR_Tundra_Forest_AK.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/above/LiDAR_Tundra_Forest_AK/comp/LiDAR_Tundra_Forest_AK.pdf
34 A perspective of one study plot at the forest-tundra ecotone with mature spruce trees transitioning into short-stature trees and low-stature deciduous shrubs. From Maguire et al. (2019). Photo credit: Kevin Krajick, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/LiDAR_Tundra_Forest_AK_Fig1.png
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/above/LiDAR_Tundra_Forest_AK/
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/LiDAR_Tundra_Forest_AK.html
21 ABoVE project site https://above.nasa.gov

Tags

  • topography
  • ecosystems
  • land-surface
  • biosphere
  • spectral-engineering
  • vegetation
  • lidar
  • earth-science

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