NCRN LiDAR Forest Structure Inventory

Sanders G. NCRN LiDAR Forest Structure Inventory. 2009-2013. National Park Service

The NCRN acquired LiDAR imagery and derived products related to forest vegetation structure. This project sought to map and analyze the three-dimensional structure of vegetation in portions of four, primarily forested national parks: Prince William Forest Park, Catoctin Mountain Park, C & O Canal National Historical Park, and Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. All four parks are within the National Capital Region Inventory and Monitoring Network and contain forest monitoring plots that have been measured yearly since 2005. We acquired Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) surveys of these parks during leaf-on conditions in 2009 and 2010. From these data four primary products were generated: (1) digital elevation models (2-m resolution DEMs), (2) Canopy height models (at 1- and 2-m resolutions), (3) canopy gaps (defined as 2-m grid cells with canopies shorter than 3m), and (4) understory percent cover (2-m resolution).

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Project
Authors
Sanders, Geoffrey
Publisher
National Park Service
Units
CATO , CHOH , HAFE , NCRN , PRWI
Keywords
Canopy, DEM, Elevation, Forest, Forest Structure, Forest Vegetation, gaps, Lidar, Remote Sensing

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