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Vegetation height for Australia (Simard)

Abstract

This dataset and its metadata statement were supplied to the Bioregional Assessment Programme by a third party and are presented here as originally supplied. Data was downloaded from http://lidarradar.jpl.nasa.gov/MAPS/Simard_Pinto_3DGlobalVeg_JGR.tif.gz

Vegetation height was measured using a satellite based light detection and ranging (lidar) system between 20 May 2005 to 23 June 2005 using the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) aboard ICESat (Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite). Using a regression tree approach to model canopy height, Simard et al. (2011) were able to globally model overstorey vegetation height at 1 km spatial resolution with a vertical RMSE of 4.4 m and coefficient of determination (r2) of 0.7 when compared against 59 flux-tower field observations globally. The dataset covers the whole of Australia.

Simard M, Pinto N, Fisher JB and A. B (2011) Mapping forest canopy height globally with spaceborne lidar. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 116(G04021), doi:10.1029/2011JG001708.

Dataset History

Vegetation height was measured using a satellite based light detection and ranging (lidar) system between 20 May 2005 to 23 June 2005 using the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) aboard ICESat (Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite). Using a regression tree approach to model canopy height, Simard et al. (2011) were able to globally model overstorey vegetation height at 1 km spatial resolution with a vertical RMSE of 4.4 m and coefficient of determination (r2) of 0.7 when compared against 59 flux-tower field observations globally.

The data were downloaded from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory website here: http://lidarradar.jpl.nasa.gov/MAPS/Simard_Pinto_3DGlobalVeg_JGR.tif.gz

Data covering the Australian continent was extracted and converted to a ArcGIS raster using the bounding coordinates (GCS_WGS_1984):

Latitude (min): -43.6369999991

Longitude (min): 112.921

Latitude (max): -10.0620134291

Longitude (max): 153.64598371

Dataset Citation

Caltech/JPL (2014) Vegetation height for Australia (Simard). Bioregional Assessment Source Dataset. Viewed 11 December 2018, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/09f0ceb4-d401-410c-bd4f-dfbc5276ef8b.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Title Vegetation height for Australia (Simard)
Type Dataset
Language eng
Licence Data freely available elsewhere.
Data Status active
Update Frequency never
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/1ce08319-01f0-4d3d-be7f-a0030334562b
Date Published 2016-04-08
Date Updated 2022-04-13
Contact Point
Bioregional Assessment Program
bioregionalassessments@environment.gov.au
Temporal Coverage 2016-04-08 00:00:00
Geospatial Coverage POLYGON ((153.646 -43.637, 153.646 -10.06201, 112.921 -10.06201, 112.921 -43.637, 153.646 -43.637))
Jurisdiction NONE
Data Portal data.gov.au
Publisher/Agency Bioregional Assessment Program