Filtered canopy top height estimates from GEDI LIDAR waveforms for 2019 and 2020

Canopy top height (RH98) is estimated from GEDI L1B waveforms globally between 51.6° N & S from L1B Version 1 data for April-July 2019 and 2020. We refer to the original research article below for further information. The footprint data were filtered with respect to predictive uncertainty and MODIS non-vegetated probability.

The unfiltered data organized in hdf5 files corresponding to the orbit files of the GEDI L1B Version 1 data is available here:

April-July 2019: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5704852

April-July 2020: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7737869

GEDI mission website: https://gedi.umd.edu/.

Citation:

Use of these data require citation of this dataset:

Lang, Nico, Kalischek, Nikolai, Armston, John, Schindler, Konrad, Dubayah, Ralph, & Wegner, Jan Dirk. (2021). Filtered canopy top height estimates from GEDI LIDAR waveforms for 2019 and 2020 (1.0) [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7737946

Original research article:

Lang, N., Kalischek, N., Armston, J., Schindler, K., Dubayah, R., & Wegner, J. D. (2022). Global canopy height regression and uncertainty estimation from GEDI LIDAR waveforms with deep ensembles. Remote Sensing of Environment, 268, 112760.

This filtered dataset (2019 and 2020) was used to develop the global canopy height model fusing Sentinel-2 and GEDI that is presented in:

Lang, N., Jetz, W., Schindler, K., & Wegner, J. D. (2023). A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02206-6