Vegetation Inventories

• National Biomass and Carbon Dataset 2000 (NBCD 2000) download--Description
• USDA forest biomass https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/rastergateway/biomass/index.php
• Cropscape: US crops http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/ export in Geotiff, with a VAT with color assignments and names of categories
• LandFire download main page (actual download here)--Description
• World Intact Forest Landscapes
• Tree species ranges
• Global forest change:
  • http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest web interactive viewer
  • http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest/download.html data available with 1" spacing, in 10x10°tiles, 7 layers, tiff format
• Forest canopy height:
  • https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1271, CMS: GLAS LiDAR-derived Global Estimates of Forest Canopy Height, 2004-2008; point shapefile
  • https://webmap.ornl.gov/wcsdown/dataset.jsp?ds_id=10023
  • average tree height" in 1km pixel. For the small forest cover (<1km2), the tree height is underestimated, because of the mixture of land/forest in Simard's data. MERIT downscaled Simard's forest height to 90m, using Hansen forest cover.
    • Simard, M. (2011, November 2011). Mapping Forest Canopy Height Globally with Spaceborne Lidar. Journal of Geophysical Research. (116) G04021.
    • Lefsky, M. (2010, August 5). A Global Forest Canopy Height Map from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System. Geophysical Research Letters. (37) L15401.

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