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Recent News
LVIS featured on #ScienceInSeconds
28 Jul 2021
Dr. Michelle Hofton was interviewed for NASA Associate Administrator Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen's Twitter update during the 2021 GEDI Calibration/Validation campaign!
Greenland data available at NSIDC
14 Jun 2018
LVIS Level 1B and 2 data products from Operation IceBridge Greenland 2017 are now available at NSIDC. Links are now available here!
ABoVE data available at NSIDC
9 May 2018
LVIS Level 1B and 2 data products from ABoVE 2017 are now available at NSIDC, and the IceBridge 2017 data products have been sent out. Take a look here!
ABoVE data sent to NSIDC
8 Mar 2018
LVIS data from ABoVE 2017 has been sent to NSIDC. As soon as the data is available, links will be posted here!
Afrisar Gabon 2016 Data Files
In Feb-Mar, 2016, LVIS was mounted in the Langley King Air and flown over selected sites in Gabon, Africa, as part of the joint NASA/ESA/DLR/AGEOS Afrisar Campaign. Data are available from 7 flights, 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

