ALS_CHM_CAU_2012 {ForestGapR} | R 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)