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6 datasets found

  • Wind LIDAR Davos Wolfgang

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Scanning wind Lidar from Meteoswiss was installed at Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) and measured from 200 m above ground to 8100 m. The time resolution is up to 5...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • lidar
    • profiles
    • raclets
    • wind
    • wolfgangpass
  • Snow depth mapping by lidar station Braemabuel

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We developed a monitoring system using low-cost lidar (Livox Avia) and optical sensors, to measure snow depth variations in an avalanche release area at a high spatiotemporal scale...

    Last updated: May 16, 2025

    • ZIP
    • avalanche
    • lidar
    • low-cost
    • monitoring
    • snow
    • wind-drifted-snow
  • Ramerenwald Close Range Remote Sensing Benchmark

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Close Range Remote Sensing Benchmark for different LiDAR and photogrammetric Sensors in a mixed temperate forest. Benchmarks are needed to evaluate the performance of different...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • ZIP
    • 3d-point-cloud
    • forest-inventory
    • lidar
    • mobile-laser-scanning
    • structure-from-motion
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • terrestrial-photogrammetry
    • unmanned-aerial-vehicle-laser-scanning
  • Individual tree TLS point clouds for tree volume estimation

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset This dataset is based on terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data acquired during winter 2020/2021 in leaf-off conditions, with a Leica BLK 360 instrument following a...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • biomass
    • forest-inventory
    • lidar
    • single-tree
    • terrestiral-laserscanning
    • tree-volume
  • DISCHMEX - Observations and simulations of the close-ridge small-scale atmospheric flow field and snow accumulation at Sattelhorn, Dischma valley, Davos, Switzerland.

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data presented here corresponds to the publication "A Close-Ridge Small-Scale Atmospheric Flow Field and its Influence on Snow Accumulation" (Gerber et al., 2017), which...

    Last updated: November 5, 2025

    • ZIP
    • alpine3d
    • lee-side-flow-field
    • lidar
    • preferential-deposition
    • tls
  • Forest Canopy Layer Code

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    R script for large-scale mapping of forest canopy layering. The approach combines tree-based and area-based methods, using airborne laser scanning point clouds together with...

    Last updated: November 11, 2025

    • ZIP
    • forest
    • forest-management
    • itd
    • lidar
    • mountain-forest
    • protective-forest
    • vhm