Aerial laser scanning (ALS) dataset, Crique Plomb and Montagne Plomb, French Guiana, acquired between 8 and 9 April 2009.
Description
The aerial laser scanning (ALS) dataset, acquired between 8 and 9 April 2009, covers five plots of Crique Plomb and Montagne Plomb area in French Guiana. In this area. the forest presents contrasting and diversified characteristics: high forest, forest grown on ferricrust, and superficial saprolit with high density of stem per hectare. Ground echoes are available as well as a digital terrain model (DTM), a digital surface model (DSM), a digital canopy model (DCM) with a 1 meter resolution and a triangulated irregular network (TIN) digital terrain model with a precision of 5 meters.