CONUS_GEDI2FIA - March 12, 2025

Interpolated GEDI cumulative waveforms over FIA field plots, following the methods of:

May, Paul B., et al. "Connecting spaceborne lidar with NFI networks: A method for improved estimation of forest structure and biomass." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 129 (2024): 103797.

Start with "./washington_biomodel_presentation.R" for a demonstration of the data set and accompanying scripts.

Folder "./data/waveform_preds/" contains .RData and .json files for the waveform predictions by each ecoregion. These could be opened directly in `R' using load("...") or fromJSON("..."), but it is intended they be synthesized using the getRHmetrics() function in "./src/getRHmetrics.R".

"./data/FIA_table.csv" contains FIA plot information for all predicted plots, but with the public, fuzzed coordinates, not the true, confidential coordinates used for interpolation. The table also contains dry-weight, aboveground biomass density at the plot level, which is the attribute used in the example demonstration mentioned above. Other desired FIA plot metrics should be obtained using FIA DataMart or the `R' package `FIESTA'.