News
GEDI Data Products
GEDI’s Level 1 and 2 products will start to become available on the MAAP in late 2019, with level 4A products coming available in 2020. The Level 2A and 2B products should be of particular interest to MAAP users, as they include GEDI waveforms that have been processed for easy interpretation, containing biophysical variables. These products…
Reference Data Coming Soon
The GEDI team is continuing to expand the forest structure and biomass database with the goal of obtaining publicly available datasets that can be added to the MAAP. Some specific datasets on the horizon are: Brazil field data and lidar geotiffs in the Amazon (already in the GEDI database)ABoVE public field sites and airborne lidar…
GEDI Cal/Val Data on the MAAP
The GEDI team has developed and curated a global field and airborne lidar database to calibrate GEDI’s empirical aboveground biomass algorithms. The publicly-available portion of this database is available on the MAAP, and newly acquired public data will be continually updated. These data are useful for multi-mission biomass calibration and validation activities. So far, the…