Grid-level (e.g. digital surface models, canopy height models) and tree-level forestry products (e.g. crown-level metrics) derived from Airborne Lidar Scanning data from USGS 3D Elevation Program, NOAA Coastal Topographic Lidar, NSF OpenTopography and other sources.
– USGS 3D Elevation Profile Forest Structure Metrics
Workflow to process USGS 3DEP lidar point cloud data, generate and visualize Canopy Height Model (CHM), Digital Surface Model (DSM), Digital Terrain Model (DTM), and extract forest canopy metrics.
- Access via OpenForest4D Gateway Portal
- USGS 3D Elevation Profile Forest Structure Metrics Workflow Guide
– NOAA Coastal Topographic Lidar Forest Structure Metrics
Workflow to process NOAA coastal topographic lidar point cloud data, generate and visualize Canopy Height Model (CHM), Digital Surface Model (DSM), Digital Terrain Model (DTM), and extract forest canopy metrics.
- Access via OpenForest4D Gateway Portal
- NOAA Coastal Topographic Lidar Forest Structure Metrics Workflow Guide
Notebooks
- Generating Canopy Height Model (CHM) and forest canopy metrics from lidar point clouds using lidR (Google Colab)
- Forest Canopy Gap Detection from CHM (Google Colab)