Global canopy top height estimates from GEDI LIDAR waveforms for 2020

Canopy top height (RH98) is estimated from GEDI L1B waveforms globally between 51.6° N & S from L1B Version 1 data from April-July 2020. The footprint level RH98 predictions are stored in hdf5 files corresponding to the orbit files of the GEDI L1B Version 1 data.

See also the repository for the data from April-July 2019: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5704852. This repository also contains the file load_pred_RH98_files.py with more information on how to parse and load the prediction orbit files.

GEDI mission website: https://gedi.umd.edu/.

Citation:

Use of these data require citation of this dataset:

Lang, Nico, Kalischek, Nikolai, Armston, John, Schindler, Konrad, Dubayah, Ralph, & Wegner, Jan Dirk. (2021). Global canopy top height estimates from GEDI LIDAR waveforms for 2020 (1.0) [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7737869

Original research article:

Lang, N., Kalischek, N., Armston, J., Schindler, K., Dubayah, R., & Wegner, J. D. (2022). Global canopy height regression and uncertainty estimation from GEDI LIDAR waveforms with deep ensembles. Remote Sensing of Environment, 268, 112760.