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readLevel2B

Read GEDI Level2B data (Biophysical Variables)

Description

This function reads GEDI level2B products: canopy cover, Plant Area Index (PAI), Plant Area Volume Density (PAVD), and Foliage Height Diversity (FHD).

Usage

readLevel2B(level2Bpath)

Arguments

level2Bpath

File path pointing to GEDI level2B data. Data in HDF5 Hierarchical Data Format (.h5).

Value

Returns an S4 object of class "gedi.level2b" containing GEDI level2B data.

Examples

# Specifying the path to GEDI level2B data (zip file)
outdir = tempdir()
level2B_fp_zip <- system.file("extdata",
                  "GEDI02_B_2019108080338_O01964_T05337_02_001_01_sub.zip",
                  package="rGEDI")

# Unzipping GEDI level2A data
level2Bpath <- unzip(level2B_fp_zip,exdir = outdir)

# Reading GEDI level2B data (h5 file)
level2b<-readLevel2B(level2Bpath=level2Bpath)

close(level2b)

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