LiDAR survey on 1199.95 hectares in Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve, Amazonas, Brasil in 2008

The LiDAR data Reserva Florestal Adolpho Ducke (DUC_A01_2008_LiDAR) refers to initial airborne surveys carried out in 2008 in the Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve, Amazonas state, Brazil, and funded by grants from NASA (#NNX09AI33G to M. Lefsky et al.) and NSF (#0721140 to S. Saleska, G.G. Parker, Y. Shimabukuro et al.). The DUC_A01_2008 survey area encompasses some of the long-term monitoring plots of the Brazilian PPBio Project (de Castilho et al., 2006).The purpose of the NASA and NSF LiDAR projects was to measure forest canopy structure across Amazonian landscapes to infer large-scale forest biomass and carbon balance (Stark et al., 2012). 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."