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Canopy Structure in the Great Smoky Mountains

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This overview map shows thirty unique vegetation canopy structure classes identified within the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee and North Carolina, USA.

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This revised dataset characterizes canopy structure based on LiDAR surveys of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

AfriSAR Measures African Forests

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Goddard Space Center's Dr. Laura Duncanson records data on tree heights and diameters in the Pongara mangrove forest during field work in 2016. (Credit: NASA/Carla Thomas)

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NASA's AfriSAR campaign provides critical data on canopy height and structure of tropical forests in Gabon, West Africa.

Daymet Goodness-of-Fit Statistics for 2017

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Station-level cross validation of Daymet at weather station locations showing annual mean absolute error (MAE; degrees C) for the variable maximum temperature (tmax) in 2016.

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Daymet provides information to access the accuracy and uncertainty of modeled climate data at each ground station location or two-degree tile.