Canopy top height models at 10m GSD from airborne LIDAR (derived from LVIS and small-footprint ALS)

<p>Rasterized canopy top height models (CTHM) at 10m ground sampling distance (GSD) derived from airborne LIDAR.</p><p>The CTHMs were created to be comparable to GEDI canopy top heights (within 25m footprints) using two sources:</p><p>1) NASA's LVIS airborne LIDAR campaigns (here we rasterized the RH98).<br>2) High-resolution canopy height models derived from small-footprint airborne laser scanning campaigns in Europe (max pooled with a circular 25m footprint corresponding to the GEDI footprint).</p><p>The original LVIS LIDAR data is available here: <a href="https://lvis.gsfc.nasa.gov">https://lvis.gsfc.nasa.gov</a></p><p>Links to the original ALS data are available here: <a href="https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC126223/jrc126223_jrc126223_lidaropensourcedata.pdf">https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC126223/jrc126223_jrc126223_lidaropensourcedata.pdf</a></p><p>Code to create GEDI-like canopy top heights from high-resolution ALS data is available here: https://github.com/langnico/global-canopy-height-model</p><p>More information is available in the Lang et al. (2022). Please cite our paper if you use these derived data in your own work.</p><p><strong>Reference:</strong></p><p>Lang, N., Jetz, W., Schindler, K., &amp; Wegner, J. D. (2023). A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth. Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution, 1-12, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02206-6">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02206-6</a></p>