ABoVE: LVIS L3 Gridded Vegetation Structure across North America, 2017 and 2019

Description

This dataset provides Level 3 (L3) footprint-level gridded metrics and attributes collected from NASA's Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS)-Facility instrument for each flightline from 2017 and 2019. In 2017, the LVIS-Facility instrument was flown at a nominal flight altitude of 28,000 ft onboard a Dynamic Aviation Super King Air B200T. In 2019, the LVIS-Facility and LVIS-Classic instruments were flown at a nominal flight altitude of 41,000 feet onboard the NASA Gulfstream V. LVIS data are collected as waveforms over footprints of ~10-m diameter. The L3 data include grids of canopy relative height (RH), complexity, canopy cover (CC), ground elevation, and the number of LVIS footprints available to produce a pixel's estimate.. These 30-m resolution grids describe the vertical column of the vegetation canopy in detail with relative canopy height metrics and are enriched with an additional set of canopy cover estimates at a variety of height thresholds. The LVIS-Facility instrument 2017 and 2019 acquisitions span Arctic, boreal, temperate, and sub-tropical landscapes in support of a variety of Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE)- and Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI)-related science. In the ABoVE study domain of arctic and boreal Alaska and Western Canada, some of these acquisitions coincide spatially with legacy small-footprint airborne lidar. Data are included for the ABoVE domain and also for the continental U.S. and central America in support of GEDI calibration and validation. Data files are provided in GeoTIFF format and one geopackage file shows flightlines.

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5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure_1923&ac=true
21 https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1923
34 ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure_Fig1.png https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure_Fig1.png
33 ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/above/ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure/comp/ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure.pdf
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure_1923%26ac%3Dtrue
5 https://daac.ornl.gov%2FABOVE%2Fguides%2FABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure.html
5 https://doi.org%2F10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1923
5 https://above.nasa.gov%2F
5 https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Fabove%2FABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure%2Fcomp%2FABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure.pdf
5 https://daac.ornl.gov%2FABOVE%2Fguides%2FABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure_Fig1.png
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure_1923&ac=true
21 https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1923
34 ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure_Fig1.png https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure_Fig1.png
5 https://above.nasa.gov/
33 ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/above/ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure/comp/ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure.pdf
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=ABoVE_Frac_Open_Water_1362&ac=true
21 https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1362
57 ABoVE_Frac_Open_Water_1362.zip https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/protected/bundle/ABoVE_Frac_Open_Water_1362.zip
22 ABoVE_Frac_Open_Water_Fig1.JPG https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/ABoVE_Frac_Open_Water_Fig1.JPG
33 ABoVE_Frac_Open_Water.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/above/ABoVE_Frac_Open_Water/comp/ABoVE_Frac_Open_Water.pdf
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure_1923&ac=true
21 https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1923
34 ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure_Fig1.png https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure_Fig1.png
33 ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/above/ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure/comp/ABoVE_LVIS_VegetationStructure.pdf
5 https://above.nasa.gov
0 The metadata's original source. https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2264350397-ORNL_CLOUD.iso19115

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  • earth-science-topography-land-surface-terrain-elevation
  • earth-science-vegetation-biosphere-canopy-characteristics
  • earth-science-ecosystems-biosphere-terrestrial-ecosystems-forests

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