Terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) point cloud data gathered in the Macon Study of Dormant Season Prescribed Fire burn units within Osceola National Forest in 2022

This data product contains point cloud data collected with a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) at the Macon Study of Dormant Season Prescribed Fire burn units within Osceola National Forest, Florida, USA in late January (pre-burn) and early February (post-burn) 2022. TLS scans were taken at the corners of burn units both before and after prescribed fire, for the purpose of characterizing fuels and fuel consumption. At the exterior burn unit corners around the perimeter of the study area, the TLS instrument was mounted atop a boom lift to scan at elevations of ~18m and -9m aboveground. At the interior burn unit corners (inaccessible with the boom lift) within the study area, the TLS instrument was mounted in the back of a pickup truck and scans were taken at elevations of ~3 m aboveground.

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Mező	Érték
Last Updated	Július 2, 2025, 21:49 (UTC)
Created	Július 2, 2025, 21:49 (UTC)
Forrás	https://wfsi-data.org/view/wfsi-20250701T175522943-2183a82bac043f5
associated_parties	Benjamin Bright, benjamin.c.bright@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8363-0803, contributor
award	Object-based aggregation of fuel structures, physics-based fire behavior and self-organizing smoke plumes for improved fuel, fire, and smoke management on military lands.
creators	Carlos Silva, c.silva@ufl.edu, University of Florida, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7844-3560 \| Andrew Hudak, andrew.hudak@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7480-1458 \| Rodrigo Vieira Leite, r.vieiraleite@gmail.com, NASA Goddard, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7840-3905
doi	wfsi-20250701T175522943-2183a82bac043f5
funder	U. S. Department of Defense (DoD), Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100013316
maintainor	Carlos Silva, c.silva@ufl.edu
method	The Macon Study of Dormant Season RxFire burn units within Osceola National Forest, Florida, USA, were scanned before and after fire using the Riegl VZ-400i terrestrial laser scanner system (TLS). We positioned and scanned the area from i) each unit corner for the pre-fire data and ii) each corner of the burned units for the post-fire data. The scans were done at ~18 m and ~9 m from the ground by elevating the TLS with a boom lift using full and half length of its arm, respectively. For unitsâ corners that were not accessible with the boom lift, the TLS tripod was mounted on the back of a truck and the scans were performed at ~3 m from the ground. It was possible to collect all the outer-most units corners (i.e., those that intersect the study area outer perimeter) with the boom lift. For all scans, the TLS configuration was set to panorama 20 with a laser frequency of 1200kHz. Burn unit location and prescription data, in ESRI polygon shapefile format, is also included in this dataset. These polygons represent approximate digitized boundaries of burn units; the method of digitization is unknown.
project	Funding Award RC20-1346: Object-based aggregation of fuel structures, physics-based fire behavior and self-organizing smoke plumes for improved fuel, fire, and smoke management on military lands.
spatial	{"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-82.40858, 30.2347], [-82.41304, 30.2347], [-82.41304, 30.2395], [-82.40858, 30.2395], [-82.40858, 30.2347]]]}
temporal	{"endTime": "2022-02-05", "startTime": "2022-01-28"}