Earth ID: 4530

50 Kilometers of Brazilian Forest Canopy

Visualizations by Alex Kekesi Released on June 12, 2018

This visualization shows an airplane collecting a 50 kilometer swath of lidar data over the Brazilian rainforest. For ground level features, colors range from deep brown to tan. Vegetation heights are depicted in shades of green, where dark greens are closest to the ground and light greens are the highest.

Full 50 kilometer transect of 2014 lidar data over Brazil. The full swath of data consists of approximately 1 billion data points, where each data point is a position in 3D space. Together these data points provide scientists with information on foliage distribution and the elements of tree canopy. For more information on NASA Goddard's Lidar project, please visit http://gliht.gsfc.nasa.gov

Visualization Credits

Lead Data Visualizer:
Alex Kekesi (GST)

Data Visualizer:
Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)

Lead Scientist:
Doug C. Morton (NASA/GSFC)

Scientist:
Veronika Leitold (University of Maryland)

Technical Support:
Laurence Schuler (ADNET)
Ian Jones (ADNET)

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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

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Data Used:

Airplane/G-LiHT/LiDAR 3D point cloud also referred to as: LiDAR

Observed Data - NASA/GSFC - 2014

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Lidar

Keywords:
DLESE >> Biology
DLESE >> Forestry
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Lidar
SVS >> Tree height
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Biosphere >> Vegetation >> Canopy Characteristics
GCMD >> Location >> Brazil
SVS >> Hyperwall
NASA Science >> Earth
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Spectral/engineering >> Lidar

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0