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Description

This data set contains return energy waveform data over Gabon, Africa. The measurements were taken by the NASA Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS), an airborne lidar scanning laser altimeter. The data were collected as part of a NASA campaign, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) mission AfriSAR.

Product Summary

Platforms
AIRCRAFT ,
B-200 ,
C-130 ,
DC-8 ,
G-V ,
HU-25C ,
P-3B ,
RQ-4
Instruments
ALTIMETERS ,
LASERS ,
LVIS
Spatial Extent

N: 1 S: -2 E: 12 W: 8

Geographic Region
GABON
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2016-02-20 to 2016-03-08
Concept ID
C3151683992-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
119
Processing Level
1B
Science Keywords
Sensor Counts

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Blair, J., & Hofton, M. (2018). AfriSAR LVIS L1B Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms, Version 1 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/ED5IYGVTB50Z Date Accessed: 2025-12-14

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