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LVIS Facility L1B Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms, Version 1
Data set id:
LVISF1B
DOI: 10.5067/XQJ8PN8FTIDG
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Initial release

Overview

This data set contains Level-1B geolocated return energy waveforms collected by the NASA Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) Facility, an imaging lidar and camera sensor suite.
Parameter(s):
SENSOR COUNTS
Platform(s):
B-200
G-III
G-V
P-3B
Sensor(s):
LVIS
Data Format(s):
HDF5
Temporal Coverage:
  • 7 November 2018 to present
Temporal Resolution:
  • Varies
Spatial Resolution:
  • varies
  • varies
Spatial Reference System(s):
  • WGS 84
    EPSG:4326
  • ITRF2008
    EPSG:5332
Spatial Coverage:
  • N:
    88
    S:
    -35
    E:
    27
    W:
    -167
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

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Help Articles

General Questions & FAQs

This article covers frequently asked questions about the NASA NSIDC DAAC's Earthdata cloud migration project and what it means to data users.

How to Articles

This article explains how to find LVIS science products in NASA's Earthdata Search using filenames from the exploratory tools and KMZ files available on the NASA LVIS campaigns webpage.