N: 55.8 S: -53 E: 180 W: -180
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This dataset contains Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Level 4A (L4A) Version 2 predictions of the aboveground biomass density (AGBD; in Mg/ha) and estimates of the prediction standard error within each sampled geolocated laser footprint. In this version, the granules are in sub-orbits. The algorithm setting group selection used for GEDI02_A Version 2 has been modified for Evergreen Broadleaf Trees in South America to reduce false positive errors resulting from the selection of waveform modes above ground elevation as the lowest mode. The footprints are located within the global latitude band observed by the International Space Station (ISS), nominally 51.6 degrees N and S and reported for the period 2019-04-18 to 2025-07-09. No acquisitions occurred while the GEDI instrument was in storage on the International Space Station (ISS) from March 2023 to April 2024. The GEDI instrument consists of three lasers producing a total of eight beam ground transects, which instantaneously sample eight ~25 m footprints spaced approximately every 60 m along-track. The GEDI beam transects are spaced approximately 600 m apart on the Earth's surface in the cross-track direction, for an across-track width of ~4.2 km. Footprint AGBD was derived from parametric models that relate simulated GEDI Level 2A (L2A) waveform relative height (RH) metrics to field plot estimates of AGBD. Height metrics from simulated waveforms associated with field estimates of AGBD from multiple regions and plant functional types (PFTs) were compiled to generate a calibration dataset for models representing the combinations of world regions and PFTs (i.e., deciduous broadleaf trees, evergreen broadleaf trees, evergreen needleleaf trees, deciduous needleleaf trees, and the combination of grasslands, shrubs, and woodlands). For each of the eight beams, additional data are reported with the AGBD estimates, including the associated uncertainty metrics, quality flags, model inputs, and other information about the GEDI L2A waveform for this selected algorithm setting group. Model inputs include the scaled and transformed GEDI L2A RH metrics, footprint geolocation variables and land cover input data including PFTs and the world region identifiers. Additional model outputs include the AGBD predictions for each of the six GEDI L2A algorithm setting groups with AGBD in natural and transformed units and associated prediction uncertainty for each GEDI L2A algorithm setting group. Providing these ancillary data products will allow users to evaluate and select alternative algorithm setting groups. Also provided are outputs of parameters and variables from the L4A models used to generate AGBD predictions that are required as input to the GEDI04_B algorithm to generate 1-km gridded products.
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| Advancing fire regime assessment in the Indian Himalayan forests using | Bhandari, Konica, Singh, Gulab | Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), VIEWING GEOMETRY, Terrain Elevation, Lidar, Topography, Vegetation Height | |
| Aboveground Biomass Estimation in Amazonian Mangroves from Space: Principles and Applications | Martins e Souza-Filho, Pedro Walfir, Barros, Jackison Mateus Lopes, de Oliveira Miranda, Artur Gustavo, Fernandes, Marcus Emanuel Barroncas | Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics | |
| Automatic tree-level based forest inventories retrieval via ultra-high resolution UAV images and deep learning | Fan, Wen, Knoke, Thomas, Troles, Jonas, Tian, Jiaojiao | Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics | |
| Managed rainforests support higher carbon density and sequestration in the Congo Basin | Sagang, Le Bienfaiteur, Dalagnol, Ricardo, White, Lee, George-Chacon, Stephanie, Favrichon, Samuel, Li, Shuang, Wagner, Fabien, Liu, Zhihua, Zhang, Dafeng, Ngomanda, Alfred, Medjibe, Vincent, Sonke, Bonaventure, Barbier, Nicolas, Ordway, Elsa M., Saatchi, Sassan | Plant Phenology, Canopy Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Lidar, Topography, Vegetation Height, Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Plant Characteristics, Terrain Elevation | |
| Data-driven multisource estimation of aboveground biomass density: a baseline for rangeland monitoring | Chere, Zerihun, Gessesse, Berhan, Ali, Abebe Mohammed, Mul, Marloes, Yalew, Seleshi | Evergreen Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Grasslands, Forests, Canopy Characteristics, Deciduous Vegetation, Biomass, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Terrestrial Ecosystems | |
| Forest aboveground biomass estimation through integration of sentinel-2 | He, Yinan, Shu, Shijie, Holm, Jennifer, Needham, Jessica, Negron-Juarez, Robinson, Koven, Charles, Zhu, Qing, Falco, Nicola | Reflectance, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics, Terrestrial Ecosystems | |
| Forest Carbon Diligence: Digital MRV for mapping forest structure and | Anderson, Christopher B., Joseph, Maxwell B., Sothe, Camile, de Souza Mendes, Flavia, Maschler, Thomas, McCarthy, Ryan C., Mascaro, Joseph, OShea, Tara, Rosenthal, Amy, Marvin, David C. | Biomass, Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Carbon | |
| Explainable multi-sensor geospatial modeling of forest biomass dynamics under compound climate extremes in subtropical monsoon regions | Xu, Bo, Dang, Tong, Wu, Xuefei | Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics, Terrestrial Ecosystems | |
| Geostatistical techniques for estimating aboveground biomass in eastern Amazonia | Figueiredo De Souza, RL, Dionizio, EA, Lopes Cavalcante, RB | Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics | |
| Modeling and optimizing alpine forest management to maximize carbon sequestration | Brocco, Sebastian, Berretti, Roberta, Pilli, Roberto, Morresi, Donato, Garbarino, Matteo, Motta, Renzo, Vacchiano, Giorgio | Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics | |
| On the Use of Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) in the Mangrove Ecosystem. Estimation of Canopy Aboveground Biomass Density in Lian Batangas, Philippines | Bulan, Jejomar, Cadondon, Jumar, Roque, Floro Junior, Caido, Nadine Grace, Lesidan, James Roy, Galvez, Maria Cecilia, Vallar, Edgar | Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics | |
| Transferability of Aboveground Biomass Estimation Using Sentinel-1/2 and GEDI Data in Subtropical Forests of Complex Terrain, China | Wang, Guoqing, Dong, Wenquan, Zhang, Huaiqing, Ji, Yongjie, Zhang, Wangfei, Zhao, Han, Wang, Mengjin, Ma, Yuqiao, Song, Ci, Jiang, Ying, Bai, Chenfu, Wu, Jing | Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics | |
| Topography-mediated aboveground biomass (AGB) carbon storage in semiarid Patagonia: native forests and pine plantations at the landscape scale | Valfre-Giorello, Tatiana Alejandra, Agost, Lisandro, Conti, Georgina, Montero, Carla, Oneto, Maria Elena, Perez, Daniel Roberto | Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics | |
| A geostatistical approach to enhancing national forest biomass | Hunka, Neha, May, Paul, Babcock, Chad, de la Rosa, Jose Armando Alanis, de los Angeles Soriano-Luna, Maria, Saucedo, Rafael Mayorga, Armston, John, Santoro, Maurizio, Suarez, Daniela Requena, Herold, Martin, Malaga, Natalia, Healey, Sean P., Kennedy, Robert E., Hudak, Andrew T., Duncanson, Laura | Plant Phenology, Canopy Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Lidar, Topography, Vegetation Height, Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Grasslands, Deciduous Vegetation, Biomass, LIDAR WAVEFORM | |
| A 30 m aboveground biomass dataset for multiple vegetation types in China (2020) | Wang, Xiaoya, Zhong, Bo, Chang, Bo, Zhang, Yulin, Li, Shuaifeng, Du, Bailin, Qiao, Yang, Cai, He, Wu, Junjun, Yang, Aixia, Jian, Yi, Su, Jianrong, Wang, Genxu, Liu, Qinhuo | Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics | |
| Calibration of GEDI footprint aboveground biomass models in | Pascual, Adrian, May, Paul B., Cardenas-Martinez, Aaron, Guerra-Hernandez, Juan, Hunka, Neha, Bruening, Jamis M., Healey, Sean P., Armston, John D., Dubayah, Ralph O. | Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics | |
| Changes in GEDI-based measures of forest structure after large | Clark, Matthew L., Hakkenberg, Christopher R., Bailey, Tim, Burns, Patrick, Goetz, Scott J. | Plant Phenology, Canopy Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Lidar, Topography, Vegetation Height, Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM | |
| Integrating GEDI, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-1 imagery for tree crops | Adrah, Esmaeel, Wong, Jesse Pan, Yin, He | Plant Phenology, Canopy Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Lidar, Topography, Vegetation Height, Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM | |
| Integrating UAV and Spaceborne Datasets for Enhanced Forest Aboveground Biomass Estimation: A Hybrid Approach | Khan, Muhammad Nouman, Tan, Yumin, Dong, Wenquan | Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics | |
| Investigation of factors that affect post-fire recovery of | Shen, Yicheng, Prentice, I. Colin, Harrison, Sandy P. | Population Density, Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics | |
| kNN - Bagging NFI, GEDI, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 data to produce estimates of forest volumes | Schleich, Anouk, Vega, Cedric, Renaud, Jean-Pierre, Bouriaud, Olivier, Durrieu, Sylvie | Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Terrain Elevation | |
| Evaluating SWAT-3PG simulation of hydrologic and water quality processes | Karki, Ritesh, Qi, Junyu, Zhang, Xuesong, Srivastava, Puneet | Forest Mensuration, Forests, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics, Vegetation Species, Fire Disturbance, Forest Harvesting and Engineering, Carbon | |
| Decarbonization through wood-based building material substitution in mountain territories | Brocco, Sebastian, Morresi, Donato, Berretti, Roberta, Garbarino, Matteo, Motta, Renzo, Vacchiano, Giorgio | Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics | |
| High-resolution aboveground biomass mapping: the benefits of biome-specific deep learning models | Perpinya-Valles, Marti, Cendagorta-Galarza, Daniel, Ameztegui, Aitor, Huertas, Claudia, Escorihuela, Maria Jose, Romero, Laia | Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM, Canopy Characteristics, Decomposition, Crown | |
| Forest aboveground biomass accumulation lags forest canopy recovery in degraded tropical forests of Ghana | Wanyama, Dan, Wimberly, Michael C., Doughty, Russell, Mensah, Foster | Canopy Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), VIEWING GEOMETRY, Terrain Elevation, Lidar, Topography, Vegetation Height, Forests, Evergreen Vegetation, Deciduous Vegetation, Shrubland/Scrub, Biomass, Grasslands, LIDAR WAVEFORM |