2015 Bay Batiste marsh Leaf Area Index (LAI) from the Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI)

The map shows the Leaf Area Index (LAI) of coastal marshes near Bay Batiste, Louisiana in 2015. The data is generated from the Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI) data collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM), University of Houston (GRIIDC Dataset R4.x264.196:0002). The CASI data were collected on August 16, 2015, with flight altitude of 2400 m. The data were collected in spatial resolution of 1.2 m by 1.2 m and with 48 bands (bandwidth 14.4 nm) at 380–1050 nm. Processing by Yu Mo, J.C. Alexis Riter, and Michael S. Kearney of the Department of Environmental Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. This dataset supports the publication: Mo, Y., Kearney, M. S., Riter, J. C. A., Zhao, F., & Tilley, D. R. (2018). Assessing biomass of diverse coastal marsh ecosystems using statistical and machine learning models. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 68, 189–201. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2017.12.003