ALS derived forest height (P98) maps at regional level in Peninsular Spain

This data is associated to the article, “Forest structure and its changes from multi-temporal lidar data: a homogeneously derived database for peninsular Spain". Authors: J.P. Martini1, D. Garcia1, P. Ruiz-Benito1,2, M. A. Zavala3 and M.A. Tanase1,3 Affiliations 1 Dpto. Geología, Geografía y Medio Ambiente, Dpto. Geología, Geografía y Medio Ambiente, Grupo de Investigación en Teledetección Ambiental, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain. 2 Universidad de Alcalá, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Grupo de Ecología y Restauración Forestal (FORECO), Avenida de Madrid, S-N, Alcalá de Henares, 28802, Madrid, Spain. 3Instituto de Ciencias Forestales ICIFOR (INIA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain. Corresponding Author Mihai Tanase [e-mail] Spanish National Research Council To use the data, please cite this study. Please note that this product is not restricted to forested areas. Users aiming to conduct forest-specific analyses are encouraged to apply a forest mask appropriate to their study objectives. Detailed information about how this data was generated can be found in the associated paper. A visualization app to preview and interactively analyze the maps can be found at https://fodim.uah.es/ Funding This work was funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation through the projects PID2020–114062RA-I00 and CNS2022-135251. We acknowledge the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) for providing access to the Spanish National Forest Inventory data. The authors wish to thank J. Astigarraga, and V. Cruz Alonso for the support with NFI data processing.