LVIS Tree Height Cross Section (Tree Texture)

  • Released Friday, September 17, 1999
View full credits

This animation starts with a false-color map of tree heights north of San Jose, Costa Rica, and changes to a close-up 3D cut-away of a section of the forest with simulated green canopy. Data from LVIS observations taken in March, 1998.

Video slate image reads, "The Vegetation Canopy Lidar (VCL) is the first selected mission of the NASA Earth System Science Patherfinder (ESSP) program. The principal goal of the Vegetation Canopy Lidar is the characterization of the three-dimensional structure of the Earth through measurements of canopy vertical and horizontal structure and land surface topography".

Video slate image reads, "The Vegetation Canopy Lidar (VCL) is the first selected mission of the NASA Earth System Science Patherfinder (ESSP) program. The principal goal of the Vegetation Canopy Lidar is the characterization of the three-dimensional structure of the Earth through measurements of canopy vertical and horizontal structure and land surface topography".

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Friday, September 17, 1999.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.

Datasets used

Note: While we identify the data sets used on this page, we do not store any further details, nor the data sets themselves on our site.