Canopy Height and Biomass from LiDAR Surveys at La Selva, Costa Rica, 1998 and 2005

Description

This data set contains land-use, canopy height, and aboveground carbon estimates derived from LiDAR data collected at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica in March 1998 and March 2005. The data are provided as GeoTIFFs (*.tif) of 100-m (1-ha) resolution. A look-up table is provided that relates modeled changes in height to changes in stand characteristics (including age and carbon content). The data were used to test the accuracy and scale-dependency of high-resolution predictions of vegetation dynamics and carbon flux by the Ecosystem Demography (ED). The ED model is an individual-based terrestrial ecosystem model that predicts both ecosystem structure and corresponding ecosystem fluxes from climate, soil, and land-use inputs.

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Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1312
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1312
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_vegetation/LaSelva_Land_Use/comp/CMS_LaSelva_Land_Use.pdf
34 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/sdat-tds/1312_1_fit.png
21 Web Coverage Service for this collection. https://webmap.ornl.gov/wcsdown/dataset.jsp?ds_id=1312
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/VEGETATION/guides/LaSelva_Land_Use.html
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/global_vegetation/LaSelva_Land_Use/

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  • biosphere
  • vegetation
  • ecological-dynamics
  • earth-science

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