Compute descriptive statistics of GEDI Elevation and Height Metrics
Computes a Series of Statistics from GEDI derived Elevation and Height Metrics (Level2A) within a given area defined or not by a polygon
polyStatsLevel2AM(level2AM, func, id=NULL)
level2AM |
A GEDI Level2AM object (output of |
func |
The function to be applied for computing the defined statistics |
id |
A vector containing the polygon id for each GEDI observation. Default is NULL |
Returns an S4 object of class data.table-class
containting Statistics of GEDI level2A defined metrics
https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/gedi02_av001/
# Specifying the path to GEDI level2A data (zip file) outdir = tempdir() level2A_fp_zip <- system.file("extdata", "GEDI02_A_2019108080338_O01964_T05337_02_001_01_sub.zip", package="rGEDI") # Unzipping GEDI level2A data level2Apath <- unzip(level2A_fp_zip,exdir = outdir) # Reading GEDI level2A data (h5 file) level2a<-readLevel2A(level2Apath=level2Apath) # Specifying the path to shapefile polygon_filepath <- system.file("extdata", "stands_cerrado.shp", package="rGEDI") # Reading shapefile as SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object library(raster) polygon_spdf<-shapefile(polygon_filepath) # Extracting GEDI Eleveation and Relative Metrics (level2A) level2AM<-getLevel2AM(level2a) head(level2AM) # Clipping GEDI data by geometry level2AM_clip = clipLevel2AMGeometry(level2AM, polygon_spdf, split_by="id") #' Define your own function mySetOfMetrics = function(x) { metrics = list( min =min(x), # Min of x max = max(x), # Max of x mean = mean(x), # Mean of x sd = sd(x)# Sd of x ) return(metrics) } # Computing the maximum of RH100 RH100max<-polyStatsLevel2AM(level2AM_clip,func=max(rh100), id=NULL) # Computing the maximum of RH100 stratified by polygon RH100max_poly<-polyStatsLevel2AM(level2AM_clip,func=max(rh100), id=NULL) # Computing a serie statistics for GEDI metrics stratified by polygon RH100metrics<-polyStatsLevel2AM(level2AM_clip,func=mySetOfMetrics(rh100), id=level2AM_clip$id) close(level2a)
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