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Workshop on NASA Earthdata for Ecology

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Presenters from the Ecology from Space workshop on August 10, 2017. From left: Michele Thornton (ORNL DAAC), Pinki Mondal (SEDAC), Alison Boyer (ORNL DAAC), and Jennifer Brennan (EOSDIS). Cole Krehbiel (LP DAAC) is not pictured.

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On August 10, 2017, ORNL DAAC staff organized an informational workshop at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.

Forest Structure near Manaus, Brazil

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Footprints for surveyed areas in Amazonas, Brazil are included in amazonas_lidar_footprints.shp. The K34 eddy flux tower (AmeriFlux BR-Ma2) is within the surveyed area at the Cuieiras Biological Reserve.

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A new dataset provides LiDAR point clouds and digital terrain models (DTM) from surveys near the Cuieiras Biological Reserve, Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve, and Rio Preto da Eva municipality near Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.

LiDAR, Tapajos National Forest, Brazil

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Footprints from each of the surveyed areas within Tapajos National Forest in Para, Brazil are included in TAP_A_footprints.shp. The Km67 and Km83 eddy flux towers (AmeriFlux Sites BR-Sa1 and BR-Sa3) are within the surveyed areas.

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A new dataset provides LiDAR point clouds and digital terrain models (DTM) from surveys over the Tapajos National Forest, Brazil during 2008.

Aboveground biomass in Sonoma County

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Estimated aboveground biomass (Mg/ha) for Sonoma County at 30-m spatial resolution using the random forest method. Zoom-in figure is a subset near Santa Rosa, the largest city in California's North Coast.

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High-resolution estimates of aboveground biomass, canopy height, and percent tree cover are available for Sonoma County, California, USA.

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