This .las file contains sample LiDAR point cloud data collected by National Ecological Observatory Network's Airborne Observation Platform. The .las file format is a commonly used file format to store LIDAR point cloud data.
This teaching data set is used for several tutorials on the NEON website (neonscience.org). The dataset is for educational purposes, data for research purposes can be obtained from the NEON Data Portal (data.neonscience.org).