Tree Canopy of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

The USFS Geospatial Technology and Applications Center (GTAC) and the International Institute of Tropical Forestry partnered to develop a workflow that produces high-resolution tree canopy cover data using available lidar data and USFS Enterprise software. GTAC implemented this workflow across 2016 and 2018 lidar data acquisitions for Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands, resulting in 1 meter spatial resolution tree canopy cover data. This publication documents the workflow used to create this datasets and presents percent canopy cover for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.