LVIS Data Citation v1.2 
The following are appropriate LVIS data set citations. 

Product Name: 
 - Nominal 20m-spaced LVIS Ground Elevation (LGE) Data and Canopy Structure Data, processing version 1.01. 
 - Nominal 20m-spaced LVIS Canopy Top Elevation (LCE), processing version 1.01. 
 - Nominal-20m spaced LVIS Geolocated Waveform (LGW) Data, processing version 1.01. Authors: J. Bryan Blair, NASA 
Goddard Space Flight Center
David Lloyd Rabine, SSAI at GSFC 
Michelle Hofton, University of Maryland College Park. 

Date: 2006 
Version: 1.2 
Publisher: Code 694 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. 
Instrument Citation: J. B. Blair, D. L. Rabine, and M. A. Hofton, The Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor (LVIS): A medium- 
altitude, digitization-only, airborne laser altimeter for mapping vegetation and topography, ISPRS Journal of 
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 54, 115-122, 1999. 

Data Set Citation: Processing of NASA LVIS elevation and canopy (LGE, LCE and LGW) data products, version 1.01. J. 
B. Blair, M. A. Hofton, and D. L. Rabine. http://lvis.gsfc.nasa.gov, 2006. 
Data set acknowledgement: Data sets were provided by the Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor 
(LVIS) team in the Laser Remote Sensing Branch at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center with support from the 
University of Maryland, College Park. 

Please choose the appropriate acknowledgement from the following: 
Funding for the collection and processing of the 2003 Northeastern USA data was 
provided by NASA's Terrestrial Ecology Program (NASA Grant number NAG512112). 

Funding for the collection and processing of the 2003 Maryland and Virginia data was 
provided by the VAccess-MAGIC consortium and NASA's Stennis Space Center, and 
data collection was performed in collaboration with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Earth Science 
Applications Center (RESAC) at the University of Maryland. 

Funding for the collection and processing of the 1998 Costa Rica data were provided by the 
Vegetation Canopy Lidar (VCL) Science team (NASA grant number NAS597160) and 
NASA's Interdisciplinary Science Program (IDS) (NASA grant number NNG04GO05G). Funding for the collection and 
processing of the 1999 US data were provided by the 
Vegetation Canopy Lidar (VCL) Science team (NASA grant number NAS597160) and 
NASA's Interdisciplinary Science Program (IDS) (NASA grant number NNG04GO05G). Reference for 1998 Costa Rica 
Data Set: Hofton, M.A., Rocchio, L.E., Blair, J.B., and Dubayah, R., Validation of Vegetation Canopy Lidar sub-canopy 
topography measurements for a dense tropical forest, Journal of Geodynamics, 34, 491-502, 2002.