full waveform LiDAR from TERN AusCover online for download

[Martin Isenburg]

Hello,

loads of wonderful full waveform data are online on the THREDDS server
of the TERN AusCover campaign. The data is stored in the GeoLas format
and was gzipped. Since all PULSEtools have native GeoLas support via
on-the-fly conversion to PulseWaves you can use pulseinfo.exe,
pulseview.exe, and pulse2pulse.exe to "play" with the data. Here an
example workflow for one strip:

download:
wget
http://tern-auscover.science.uq.edu.au/thredds/fileServer/auscover/field_datasets/airborne_lidar/whroo/airborne_lidar/FullWaveForm/120415_034415_0415LS06_W02.lgc.GZ
wget
http://tern-auscover.science.uq.edu.au/thredds/fileServer/auscover/field_datasets/airborne_lidar/whroo/airborne_lidar/FullWaveForm/120415_034415_0415LS06_W02.lwf.GZ

uncompress:
gzip -d 120415_034415_0415LS06_W02.lgc.GZ
gzip -d 120415_034415_0415LS06_W02.lwf.GZ

have a look:
pulseview -i 120415_034415_0415LS06_W02.lgc

get a textual overview:
pulseinfo -i 120415_034415_0415LS06_W02.lgc

convert to PulseWaves:
pulse2pulse -i 120415_034415_0415LS06_W02.lgc -o -i
120415_034415_0415LS06_W02.pls

have a look at the PulseWaves version:
pulseview -i 120415_034415_0415LS06_W02.pls

convert to a text file (best to press CTLR-C after a few seconds).
pulse2pulse -i 120415_034415_0415LS06_W02.lgc -o -i
120415_034415_0415LS06_W02.txt
more 120415_034415_0415LS06_W02.txt

There is a lot of data here:
http://tern-auscover.science.uq.edu.au/thredds/catalog/auscover/field_datasets/airborne_lidar/whroo/airborne_lidar/FullWaveForm/catalog.html
http://tern-auscover.science.uq.edu.au/thredds/catalog/auscover/field_datasets/airborne_lidar/supersites/chowilla/FullWaveForm/catalog.html
http://tern-auscover.science.uq.edu.au/thredds/catalog/auscover/field_datasets/airborne_lidar/supersites/credo/FullWaveForm/catalog.html
http://tern-auscover.science.uq.edu.au/thredds/catalog/auscover/field_datasets/airborne_lidar/supersites/zigzag_creek/FullWaveForm/catalog.html

Regards,

Martin @LaserPulseWaves

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