CMS: Vegetative Lifeform Cover from Landsat SR for CONUS, 1984-2018

Description

This dataset contains estimates of percent cover of tree, shrub, herb, and other (non-vegetation) lifeform classes and uncertainties for the conterminous U.S. (CONUS). The estimates were derived using quantile regression forest models and indicate the percent of ground covered by a vertical projection of each lifeform class ranging from 0 to 100 percent. Model input data included Landsat surface reflectance (SR) data and 165 airborne LiDAR datasets covering eight of the eleven terrestrial biomes of the conterminous U.S. and Alaska. Eighty-six of the LiDAR acquisitions are part of the NASA Goddard's LiDAR, Hyperspectral, and Thermal Imager (G-LiHT) airborne imager data collection; the remaining 79 sites were acquired by the National Science Foundation's National Ecological Observatory Network Airborne Observation Platform (NEON AOP). Acquisitions were selected based on the availability of the SR data for each G-LiHT and NEON dataset. The data are annual estimates from 1984 to 2018 and were tiled (425 tiles) using the CONUS Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) grid scheme. Data are provided in GeoTIFF format.

Resources

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%2F1809
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/cms/Continuous_Lifeform_Maps_CONUS/
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/CMS/guides/Continuous_Lifeform_Maps_CONUS.html
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1809
33 CMS: Vegetative Lifeform Cover from Landsat SR for CONUS, 1984-2018: Continuous_Lifeform_Maps_CONUS.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/cms/Continuous_Lifeform_Maps_CONUS/comp/Continuous_Lifeform_Maps_CONUS.pdf
34 Percent cover of trees (left) and shrubs (right) in 2018 for the southern Appalachian mountains of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Areas shown cover four tiles. Source: LPC_h024v011_SC_2018_V01.tif, LPC_h024v012_SC_2018_V01.tif, LPC_h025v011_SC_2018_V01.tif, LPC_h025v012_SC_2018_V01.tif, LPC_h024v011_TC_2018_V01.tif, LPC_h024v012_TC_2018_V01.tif, LPC_h025v011_TC_2018_V01.tif, LPC_h025v012_TC_2018_V01.tif. https://daac.ornl.gov/CMS/guides/Continuous_Lifeform_Maps_CONUS_Fig1.png

Tags

  • ecosystems
  • land-use-land-cover
  • land-surface
  • biosphere
  • vegetation
  • surface-radiative-properties
  • earth-science

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