Height growth curves from satellite images and national forest inventory measurements for various tree species

Data corresponding to height growth curves from satellite images and national forest inventory measurements for various tree species. The heights are in meters and the ages in years.

'Growth_curve_NFI.csv' corresponds to French National Forest Inventory data (IGN - National Forest Inventory of France Raw Data, Annual Campaigns from 2005 onwards, IGN – Inventaire forestier national français, Accessed 1 June 2023)

'Growth_curve_EO.csv' gives the 5th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 95th percentile of height per years. The tree height, age, and tree species information wee retried from satellite observations. 

Schwartz M, Ciais P, De Truchis A, et al (2023) FORMS: Forest Multiple Source height, wood volume, and biomass maps in France at 10 to 30 m resolution based on Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and GEDI data with a deep learning approach. Earth Syst Sci Data Discuss 1–28. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-196, 

Senf C, Seidl R (2021) Mapping the forest disturbance regimes of Europe. Nat Sustain 4:63–70. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00609-y

IGN (2018b) BD Foret® version 2, Accessed 5 May 2023

A Chapman-Richards fitting function was fitted to the growth curves leading to the fitted parameters given in the file 'Chapman-Richards fitted parameter.pdf'

'Dataset desciption.pdf' gives descriptions of the environmental datasets used in the explanaible machine learning study.