LiDAR slant range waveform (DP1.30001.001)

The Level 1 Slant Range Waveform Lidar data product provides a geolocated waveform for each laser pulse in a compressed Pulsewaves (PLZ / WVZ) output format. The X and Y coordinates are reported in meters in a UTM mapping fame, elevations reported with reference to Geoid12A. The waveform product saves the continuous received signal versus time digitized into 1 nsec time bins. The waveform shapes can provide important information about scattering properties of targets, especially in the case of dense vegetation. Waveform lidar data have many uses: 3D visualization; generation of surface models such as bare-Earth digital elevation models (DEM) also referred to as digital terrain models (DTM), digital surface models (DSM), and canopy height models (CHM); analysis of vegetation structure, leaf area index, biomass; and analysis of canopy light penetration and attenuation. Latency: AOP data will be available 60 days after the final collection day at a site.