Canopy Height
vegetationbiosphere
Height of the vegetation canopy above the underlying ground surface.
Computationally DSM minus DTM where lidar gives both; globally
available now from satellite-derived models — Meta + WRI 1m Global
CHM (Sentinel-2 + GEDI), ETH Global Canopy Height 2020 (Sentinel-2 +
GEDI), GEDI L4B native footprint products. A key input to
above-ground biomass and carbon-stock models; complements the GCOS
above-ground-biomass ECV at finer spatial granularity.
Canonical units:
m