Table 2 Airborne laser scanning datasets matched to GEDI footprints and used to train the waveform structural complexity index models

From: Characterizing the structural complexity of the Earth’s forests with spaceborne lidar

ALS project

Continental region

Number of intersected GEDI footprints

Reference

CSIR

Africa

17,284

Li et al.76

WWF DRC

Africa

8713

Xu et al.77

JPL Gabon

Africa

2918

Fatoyinbo et al.78

TERN

Australia

24,185

Quadros & Keysers79

G-LiHT Mexico

Central America

69,880

Cook et al.80

PNOA Spain Leon

Europe

24,020

Pascual et al.81

PNOA Spain Extremadura

Europe

18,245

Pascual & Guerra-Hernandez82

JPL Borneo

South East Asia

4346

Melendy et al.83

NERC ARSF Malaysia

South East Asia

3433

NERC84

EBA INPE Brazil

South America

140,923

Ometto et al.85,86

NEON

USA

502,329

NEON87