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NASA's Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor, or "LVIS", is a scanning laser altimeter instrument that is flown, by aircraft, over target areas to collect data on topography and vegetation coverage. The LVIS, which also includes data from an integrated inertial navigation system (INS) and global positioning system (GPS), is designed, developed and operated by the Laser Remote Sensing Laboratory, at Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Due to a request for larger waveform coverage data relase, the LVIS team has updated the release of the 2005 Costa Rica waveform data around La Selva. The online .lwg (i.e. waveform) data set now encompasses a 4km radius circular area centered on the biological research station. |
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LVIS data products are available to download. Please note that enhanced data products as well as improved geolocation products will be released over the coming months.
Currently available: • Costa Rica 1998 over La Selva Biological Reserach Station for VCL • California 1999 over the Sierra National Forest for VCL • New Hampshire 1999 for VCL • North Carolina 1999 for VCL • New England 2003 for The North American Carbon Cycle Program • Maryland 2003 over Patuxent Watershed • Virginia 2003 over Loudoun County • Costa Rica 2005 over Arenal, Santa Rosa, Turrialba, and Palo Verde • Sierra Nevada 2008 over California |
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