First Evidence of Peat Domes in the Congo Basin using LiDAR from a Fixed-Wing Drone

This work was funded by CongoPeat, a NERC Large Grant (NE/R016860/1) to S.L.L. and E.T.A.M. (UAV data collection, I.J.D. time), a NERC Open CASE Studentship to S.L.L., I.L. and G.D. and a Phillip Leverhulme Prize to S.L.L. (peat depths).

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