Mapping canopy cover in the US Caribbean using airborne lidar data from 2016 and 2018

Eric Rounds; Sean Patterson; Shiona Howard; Maya Quinones; Marie Schleicher

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Mapping canopy cover in the US Caribbean using airborne lidar data from 2016 and 2018

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Eric Rounds, Sean Patterson, Shiona Howard, Maya Quinones, Marie Schleicher

Year:

2024

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

International Institute of Tropical Forestry

Source:

International Institute of Tropical Forestry

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Abstract

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.

Keywords

Lidar, canopy cover, urban forestry, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, US Caribbean

Citation

Rounds, Eric; Patterson, Sean; Howard, Shiona; Quiñones, Maya; Schleicher, Marie. 2024. Mapping canopy cover in the U.S. Caribbean using 2016 & 2018 airborne lidar data. Gen. Tech. Rep. IITF-GTR-55. San Juan, PR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry. 31 p.