Retrieval of Savanna Vegetation Canopy Height from ICESat-GLAS Spaceborne LiDAR With Terrain Correction

Large-scale retrieval of leaf area index and vertical foliage profile from the spaceborne waveform lidar (GLAS/ICESat)

Canopy Height Estimation in French Guiana with LiDAR ICESat/GLAS Data Using Principal Component Analysis and Random Forest Regressions

Estimating forest canopy height from large-footprint satellite LiDAR waveforms is challenging given the complex interaction between LiDAR waveforms, terrain, and vegetation, especially in dense tropical and equatorial forests. In this study, canopy height in French Guiana was estimated using multiple linear regression models and the Random Forest technique (RF). This analysis was either based o...

Vegetation height and cover fraction between 60 S and 60 N from ICESat GLAS data

We present new coarse resolution (0.5× 0.5) vegetation height and vegetation-cover fraction data sets between 60 S and 60 N for use in climate models and ecological models. The data sets are derived from 2003–2009 measurements collected by the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) on the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), the only LiDAR instrument that provides close to global...

Characterization of canopy fuels using ICESat/GLAS data

a COMPLUTIG-UAH, Department of Geography, University of Alcalá, C/ Colegios, 2, Alcalá de Henares, 28801, Madrid, Spain b Spatial Sciences Laboratory, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University, 1500 Research Parkway, Suite B 223, TAMU 2120, College Station, TX 77845, United States c Institute of Economics and Geography, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Albasa...

Slope Estimation from ICESat/GLAS

1 Department of Geography, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA28PP, UK; E-mails: [email protected] (N.K.); [email protected] (S.O.L.); [email protected] (P.R.J.N.); [email protected] (J.A.B.R.) 2 Centre for Studies of Carbon Cycle and Climate Interactions (LUCCI), Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund,...