getLevel2BPAIProfile {rGEDI}R Documentation

Get GEDI Plant Area Index (PAI) Profile (GEDI Level2B)

Description

This function extracts the Plant Area Index (PAI) Profile from GEDI Level2B data.

Usage

getLevel2BPAIProfile(level2b)

Arguments

level2b

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

Details

Characteristics. Flag indicating likely invalid waveform (1=valid, 0=invalid).

Value

Returns an S4 object of class data.table-class containing the elevation and relative heights.

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 Plant Area Index (PAI) Profile (GEDI Level2B)
level2BPAIProfile<-getLevel2BPAIProfile(level2b)
head(level2BPAIProfile)

close(level2b)

[Package rGEDI version 0.1.9 Index]