Imaging · collection · 2025
GEDI L4D Imputed Waveforms, Version 2
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.3334/ornldaac/2455
This Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) L4D product provides a 30-m spatial elaboration of the mission's sample of footprint-level L2A V002, L2B V002, and L4A Version 2.1 products.
Description
A nearest neighbor algorithm was used with Landsat time series data to impute high-quality GEDI shots identified using a combination of metrics. The data were collected between mission week 19 starting on 2019-04-18 to mission week 223 ending on 2023-03-16 to every 30-m pixel.
A different nearest neighbor model was developed for every 10 x 10-km tile covering land between 51.6 degrees N and 51.6 degrees S, with "neighbors" (potentially imputed shots) drawn from a support area of at least 30 x 30 km centered on the tile. Nearest neighbor classifiers use a distance function to assign one or more reference observations (high-quality shots in this case) to each modeling unit based on multivariate similarity.
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Imputation of shots for the L4D product assigned the single nearest neighbor to Landsat time series imagery centering on the year 2023. The most basic 30-m output is the shot number of the imputed pixel (relayed in fragments across five fields), from which any shot-level quantity may be retrieved. Predictions for the following commonly used waveform attributes are also included: RH (relative height) 10, 20, ..., 90, 95, and 98 from the L2A product; canopy cover from L2B; and aboveground biomass density (AGBD) from L4A.
Model diagnostics are delivered for each 10-km model in a separate product, which gives the root mean square error (RMSE) for each 30-m output as well as results of a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test comparing the 10-km distribution of GEDI observations and 30-m predictions.
Links
Get the data
- Data set Landing Page DOI URL doi.org/10.3334/ornldaac/2455 ↗
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/gedi/GEDI_L4D_Imputed_Waveforms/comp/GEDI_L4D_20190418_… ↗
GEDI L4D Imputed Waveforms, Version 2: GEDI_L4D_20190418_20230316_validation_metrics.gpkg
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/gedi/GEDI_L4D_Imputed_Waveforms/comp/GEDI_L4D_ATBD_V2.p… ↗
GEDI L4D Imputed Waveforms, Version 2: GEDI_L4D_ATBD_V2.pdf
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/gedi/GEDI_L4D_Imputed_Waveforms/comp/GEDI_L4D_Imputed_W… ↗
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- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C3904758954-ORNL_CLOUD ↗
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- Resource gedi.umd.edu ↗
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- PNG daac.ornl.gov/GEDI/guides/GEDI_L4D_Imputed_Waveforms_Fig1.png ↗
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- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3904758954-ORNL_CLOUD.iso19115 ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/gedi-l4d-imputed-waveforms-version-2 ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 3
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=f79bce96-3019-4b25-a1c9-364537372… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3904758954-ORNL_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3904758954-ORNL_CLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Biomass · Canopy Characteristics · Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation · International Space Station · Lidar Waveform · Vegetation Height
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Engineering · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Physical geography and environmental geoscience 70%
Provenance · 2 source records, 22 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C3904758954-ORNL_CLOUD | 7 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | f79bce96-3019-4b25-a1c9-36453737205b | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3709 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.0.0 | title+keywords+description (70%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:gedi | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/vegetation/biomass | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/vegetation/canopy-characteristics | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/vegetation/canopy-characteristics/vegetation-height | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/lidar/lidar-waveform | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:iss | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |