Comparison of high-resolution global canopy height maps and their applicability to biodiversity modelling - dataset

This repository was created to provide datasets related with an article comparing high-resolution global canopy height maps and exploring their applicability to biodiversity modeling in temperate biomes.

EBR stands for Entlebuch Biosphere Reserve, MRF stands for Mount Richmond Forest and TAW stands for Trinity Alps Wilderness.

The original airborne laser scanning point clouds used for the generation of the canopy height models were sourced from the LINZ Data Service and OpenTopography, and licensed for reuse under the CC BY 4.0 licence (https://doi.org/10.5069/G97D2SB0); Federal Office of Topography swisstopo (https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/geodata/height/surface3d.html); and U.S. Geological Survey (https://apps.nationalmap.gov/downloader/).

The Global Forest Canopy Height Map - GFCH (Potapov et al. 2021; https://glad.umd.edu/dataset/gedi) and the high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth - HRCH (Lang et al. 2022, https://langnico.github.io/globalcanopyheight/) are provided free of charge, without restriction of use under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Publications, models, and data products that make use of these datasets must include proper acknowledgement.

P. Potapov, X. Li, A. Hernandez-Serna, A. Tyukavina, M.C. Hansen, A. Kommareddy, A. Pickens, S. Turubanova, H. Tang, C.E. Silva, J. Armston, R. Dubayah, J. B. Blair, M. Hofton (2021) Mapping and monitoring global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112165

Lang, N., Jetz, W., Schindler, K., & Wegner, J. D. (2022). A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth. arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.08322.

R scripts related with this datasets are available at Github (https://github.com/lukasgabor/Comparison-of-high-resolution-global-canopy-height-maps-and-their-applicability; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7332716)

In the previous version (1.0) the average was calculated for the canopy height. In this version (1.1), the maximum height is calculated for the canopy height.