The U.S. National Science Foundation's National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a continental-scale observation facility operated by Battelle and designed to collect long-term open access ecological data to better understand how U.S. ecosystems are changing. In addition to in situ data products, NEON provides repeat high-resolution airborne remote sensing data at 81 terrestrial and aquatic field sites throughout the United States and Puerto Rico for ecological research and monitoring.
-
NEON Canopy Height Model (CHM)
Height of the top of canopy above bare earth (Canopy Height Model; CHM). The CHM is derived from the Lidar point cloud, and is generated by creating a continuous surface of canopy height estimates across the entire spatial domain of the Lidar survey. The point … canopy forest lidar publisher-dataset vegetation