getLevel2BVPM {rGEDI}R Documentation

Get GEDI Canopy Cover and Vertical Profile Metrics (GEDI Level2B)

Description

This function extracts information from GEDI Level2B data: Total Plant Area Index, Foliage Height Diversity, Foliage Clumping Index, Total Gap Probability (theta), and Total canopy cover.

Usage

getLevel2BVPM(level2b)

Arguments

level2b

A GEDI Level2B object (output of readLevel2B function). An S4 object of class "gedi.level2b".

Details

These are the biophysical variables and additional information extracted:

Value

Returns an S4 object of class data.table-class containing the Vegetation Profile Biophysical Variables.

See Also

https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/gedi02_bv001/

Examples

# Specifying the path to GEDI level2B data (zip file)
outdir = tempdir()
level2B_fp_zip <- system.file("extdata",
                  "GEDI02_B_2019108080338_O01964_T05337_02_001_01_sub.zip",
                  package="rGEDI")

# Unzipping GEDI level2A data
level2Bpath <- unzip(level2B_fp_zip,exdir = outdir)

# Reading GEDI level2B data (h5 file)
level2b<-readLevel2B(level2Bpath=level2Bpath)

# Extracting GEDI Vegetation Profile Biophysical Variables
level2BVPM<-getLevel2BVPM(level2b)
head(level2BVPM)

close(level2b)

[Package rGEDI version 0.1.9 Index]