ABoVE 2017 Alaska & Canada Data Files

In June-July 2017, the NASA LVIS Facility was deployed to sites in northern Canada and Alaska as part of NASA's Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) 2017 airborne campaign. During the 4 week deployment of LVIS-F, a total of 15 flights were flown over diverse science targets based out of multiple airports in Canada and Alaska. Data will be available in both Level1B and Level2 formats. The Level1b data files contain the geolocated laser waveform data for each laser footprint. The Level2 data files contain canopy top and ground elevations and relative heights derived from the Level1b data.

Level 2 files are much smaller and more manageable. For those users not familiar with waveform lidar data, we recommend that you start with the Level2 files before moving to the Level1b files (e.g., for context or to apply different algorithms).

The Level1B data are in HDF5 and the Level2 data are in ascii.

Further details on the Level1B and Level2 data structures can be found in the following document: LVIS_GabonAfriSAR_data_release.pdf

Flight day Target Area Coverage Map Filename
29 Jun 2017 Slave Lake LVIS_MJD57933_quicklookcoverage.kml
30 Jun 2016 Inuvik LVIS_MJD57934_quicklookcoverage.kml
01 Jul 2016 Daring Lake LVIS_MJD57935_quicklookcoverage.kml
02 Jul 2016 Scotty Creek LVIS_MJD57936_quicklookcoverage.kml
03 Jul 2016 Scotty Creek LVIS_MJD57937_quicklookcoverage.kml
06 Jul 2016 Kluane LVIS_MJD57940_quicklookcoverage.kml
07 Jul 2016 Healy LVIS_MJD57941_quicklookcoverage.kml
09 Jul 2016 Barrow LVIS_MJD57943_quicklookcoverage.kml
14 Jul 2016 Toolik Lake, Fort Yukon LVIS_MJD57948_quicklookcoverage.kml
15 Jul 2016 Fort Yukon LVIS_MJD57949_quicklookcoverage.kml
16 Jul 2016 Transit to Glasgow LVIS_MJD57950_quicklookcoverage.kml
17 Jul 2016 BERMS LVIS_MJD57951_quicklookcoverage.kml

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