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readLevel2A

Read GEDI Level2A data (Basic Full Waveform derived Metrics)

Description

This function reads GEDI level2A products: ground elevation, canopy top height, and relative heights (RH).

Usage

readLevel2A(level2Apath)

Arguments

level2Apath

File path pointing to GEDI level2A data. Data in HDF5 Hierarchical Data Format (.h5).

Value

Returns an S4 object of class "gedi.level2a" containing GEDI level2A data.

See Also

https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/gedi02_av001/

Examples

# 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)

close(level2a)
rGEDI

NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Data Visualization and Processing

v0.1.11
GPL-3
Authors
Carlos Alberto Silva [aut, cre, cph], Caio Hamamura [aut, cph], Ruben Valbuena [aut, ctb], Steven Hancock [aut, ctb], Adrian Cardil [aut, ctb], Eben North Broadbent [aut, ctb], Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida [aut, ctb], Celso H. L. Silva Junior [aut, ctb], Carine Klauberg [aut, ctb], Burton Garbow [cph] (Is the author of the MINPACK-1 Least Squares Fitting Library), Kenneth Hillstrom [cph] (Is the author of the MINPACK-1 Least Squares Fitting Library), Jorge More [cph] (Is the author of the MINPACK-1 Least Squares Fitting Library), Craig Markwardt [cph] (Is the author of the enhanced MINPACK-1 Least Squares Fitting Library)
Initial release

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