ALS_CHM_CAU_2012: ALS-derived CHM - Fazenda Cauaxi 2012

ALS_CHM_CAU_2012R Documentation

ALS-derived CHM - Fazenda Cauaxi 2012

Description

The Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS)-derived Canopy Height Model - (CHM) provided as an example dataset collected in 2012 at Fazenda Cauaxi in the Paragominas Municipality of Pará State, Brazil, in the eastern Amazon.

Usage

data(ALS_CHM_CAU_2012)

Format

The format is:'RasterLayer'

Details

The 1-m ALS-CHM was generated using Lastools software (Isenburg 2016)

Source

ALS data were acquired with support from USAID and the US Department of State with the technical assistance of the Brazilian Corporation for Agricultural Research (EMBRAPA) and the US Forest Service Office of International Programs via the Sustainable Landscapes Brazil Project (Keller, M. 2018).

References

Keller, M. 2018. Available online: https://www.paisagenslidar.cnptia.embrapa.br/webgis/

Isenburg, M. LAStools—Efficient Tools for Lidar Processing. 2018. Available online: http://www.cs.unc. edu/~isenburg/lastools/ (accessed on 3 October 2018).

Examples

library(raster)

data(ALS_CHM_CAU_2012)
plot(ALS_CHM_CAU_2012)

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