Annual canopy height maps in Peninsular Spain from ALS and Landsat data from 1985 to 2023 (part 3 of 4)

This data is associated to the article, " Long-term forest structure trends in the peninsular Spain from lidar-optical sensors".

 Authors: M. Tanase¹, J.P. Martini², P. Miranda², D. Garcia², V. Wilke², S. Miguel², C. Mihai², J. Diez³, S. Natal³, D. San Martin³,  Paloma Ruiz-Benito⁴

 Affiliations

¹Instituto de Ciencias Forestales ICIFOR (INIA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.

² Dpto. Geología, Geografía y Medio Ambiente, Dpto. Geología, Geografía y Medio Ambiente, Grupo de Investigación en Teledetección Ambiental, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.

³ Predictia Inteligent Data Solutions S.L., Santander, Spain

⁴ Universidad de Alcalá, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Grupo de Ecología y Restauración Forestal (FORECO), Avenida de Madrid, S-N, Alcalá de Henares, 28802, Madrid, Spain.

Corresponding Author

Mihai Tanase

mihai.tanase@inia.csic.es

Spanish National Research Council

To use the data, please cite this study. 

Please note that this product is not restricted to forested areas. Users aiming to conduct forest-specific analyses are encouraged to apply a forest mask appropriate to their study objectives. The maps of canopy height, canopy cover, and above ground biomass provided by this study can be found on Zenodo, detailed information about how to access those datasets can be found in the associated paper. A visualization app to preview and interactively analyze the maps can be found here: www.fodim.uah.es.

 Funding

This work was funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation through the projects PID2020–114062RA-I00 and CNS2022-135251. JA was supported by the Basque Government's Postdoctoral Programme for the Improvement of Doctoral Research Staff (POS_2024_1_0026). PRB is supported through the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation (AEI, PID2021-123675OB-C41).