Validation of ICESat-2 terrain and canopy heights in boreal forests

• Published in: Remote sensing of environment Vol. 251; p. 112110
• Main Authors: Neuenschwander, Amy, Guenther, Eric, White, Joanne C., Duncanson, Laura, Montesano, Paul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Elsevier Inc 15.12.2020; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: ATL08; Bias; Boreal; Boreal forests; Canopies; canopy; Canopy height; Coniferous forests; Elevation; End users; environment; Finland; Forest; Forest management; Forests; Herbivores; ice; ICESat-2; landscapes; LiDAR; Photons; Snow cover; snowpack; summer; Taiga; Terrain; Validation; Vegetation; Finland; Validation; ICESat-2; Terrain; LiDAR; Forest; ATL08; Canopy height; Boreal

NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) launched in the fall of 2018 and is collecting vegetation canopy height and terrain measurements globally. In this paper we validate the terrain and canopy heights estimated from 11 months of ICESat-2 data using airborne lidar data col...