LiDAR survey on 8.85 hectares in Rio Preto da Eva, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil in 2008

The LiDAR data Rio Preto da Eva, Manaus Municipality (PRE_A07_2008), refers to airborne survey carried out in 2008 near ZF-3 access point, Amazonas state, Brazil, and funded by grants from NASA (#NNX09AI33G to M. Lefsky et al.), NSF (#0721140 to S. Saleska, G.G. Parker, Y. Shimabukuro et al.), and from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). The PRE_A07_2008 survey area encompass a subset of plots of the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), established to monitor the dynamics of forest fragments in different states of fragmentation and recovery from logging (Bierregaard, et al., 1992).These data have been incorporated into the broader integrated effort of Sustainable Landscapes, a project supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and US Department of State. The United States Forest Service working in collaboration with the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) have made possible the provision of high accuracy LiDAR data aiming at developing new methods and generating knowledge in the field. This dataset contains: a. Classified LAS formatted point cloud data – compressed LAS files: LAZ format (vendor delivered); b. Digital Terrain Model (vendor delivered); c. Map of LiDAR coverage area and block boundaries; “Data were acquired by the Sustainable Landscapes Brazil project supported by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), the US Forest Service, USAID and the US Department of State."