Airborne Lidar and Machine Learning Reveal Decreased Snow Depth in Burned Forests

This workflow requires access to the following datasets:

1. Airborne Snow Observatory, Inc. (ASO): https://data.airbornesnowobservatories.com/
2. Tree Canopy Cover (NLCD): https://www.mrlc.gov/data
3. SNODAS: https://nsidc.org/data/g02158/versions/1 (accessed using SNODASR)
4. Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS): https://mtbs.gov/

Packages in R include:

• XGBoost
• mlr3verse
• SNODASR
• elevatR
• patchwork
• terra
• tidyverse
• furrr
• readr
• vroom