How much carbon boreal forests store (ICESat-2, 30 m)
What it measures. Estimates forest canopy height and the carbon stored in aboveground biomass along the satellite's ground tracks, in 30 m segments, across northern boreal forests.
How it's made. Built from quality-filtered ICESat-2 laser height measurements collected by strong beams during recent northern growing seasons, clipped to the boreal forest area.
How & where you'd use it. Provides along-track samples of forest height and carbon that researchers use to study and map carbon storage in circumpolar boreal forests.
What's measured
Coverage & cadence
- Time span2019-05-01 → 2021-09-30
- Measured byICESat-2 (ATLAS)
- Processing levelLevel 4
- Spatial extent-164.31, 44.44, 169.14, 71.41
- FormatsGeoPackage
- StatusCOMPLETE
What you can do with it
- Map vegetation, forests and biomass
- Monitor ecosystem productivity and carbon
- Support habitat and biodiversity studies
Official description
This data set provides a quality-filtered set of ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Land and Vegetation Height, Version 5 (ATL08) observations of relative canopy heights and aboveground biomass density model results for circumpolar boreal forests. The data were collected at 30 m along-track segment lengths for strong beams only during the 2019–2021 high northern latitude growing seasons. The ATL08 point observations were clipped to the extent of the boreal forest spatial domain.
Get the data
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc") # free Earthdata Login
results = earthaccess.search_data(
short_name="IS2ATBABD",
version="1",
bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9), # your area (W,S,E,N)
temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"), # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results) # stream straight from NSIDC_CPRDBrowsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package. Official links
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