/* DATA DESCRIPTION: Citation: Anderson, Christopher; Marvin, David (2026): California Forest Observatory: Statewide Forest Monitoring Data [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.989871 Abstract: The California Forest Observatory is a multi-year, satellite-based forest monitoring dataset designed to map vegetation fuel distributions, change dynamics, and habitat structure across the state at high resolution. In order to support contemporary and legacy wildfire modeling systems, such as FARSITE, FlamMap, ELMFire and FSIM, the surface and canopy fuel datasets match the units and definitions of the LANDFIRE fuel and fire behavior products (Rollins 2009). Many of these datasets are also commonly used in wildlife habitat mapping, including canopy height, canopy cover, and canopy layer count, a metric of vertical habitat heterogeneity. Designed to quantify the ecological patterns driving environmental and land use policy in California, the Forest Observatory could serve as a blueprint for the next generation of conservation- and technology-driven forest monitoring. Keyword(s): California; canopy fuels; surface fuels; wildfire Related to: Brodrick, Philip G; Anderegg, Leander D L; Asner, Gregory P (2019): Dry-season canopy water content maps for California vegetation from 1990-2017, link to GeoTiffs [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.897276 References: Brunk, Kristin M; Gutiérrez, R J; Peery, M Zachariah; Cansler, C Alina; Kahl, Stefan; Wood, Connor M (2023): Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests. Fire Ecology, 19(1), 19, https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-023-00180-9 Chamberlain, Caden P; Cova, Gina R; Kane, Van R; Cansler, C Alina; Kane, Jonathan T; Bartl-Geller, Bryce N; van Wagtendonk, Liz; Jeronimo, Sean M A; Stine, Peter; North, Malcolm P (2023): Sierra Nevada reference conditions: A dataset of contemporary reference sites and corresponding remote sensing-derived forest structure metrics for yellow pine and mixed-conifer forests. Data in Brief, 51, 109807, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109807 Herbert, Claudia; Haya, Barbara K; Stephens, Scott L; Butsic, Van (2022): Managing nature-based solutions in fire-prone ecosystems: Competing management objectives in California forests evaluated at a landscape scale. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 5, 957189, https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2022.957189 Manley, Patricia N; Povak, Nicholas A; Wilson, Kristen N; Fairweather, Mary Lou; Griffey, Vivian; Long, Linda L (2023): Blueprint for resilience: the Tahoe-Central Sierra Initiative. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, https://doi.org/10.2737/psw-gtr-277 McGinn, Kate A; Peery, M Zachariah; Zulla, Ceeanna J; Berigan, William J; Wilkinson, Zachary A; Barry, Josh M; Keane, John J; Zuckerberg, Benjamin (2023): A climate-vulnerable species uses cooler forest microclimates during heat waves. Biological Conservation, 283, 110132, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110132 Wilkinson, Zachary A; Kramer, H Anu; Jones, Gavin M; Zulla, Ceeanna J; McGinn, Kate A; Barry, Josh M; Sawyer, Sarah C; Tanner, Richard; Gutiérrez, R J; Keane, John J; Peery, M Zachariah (2023): Tall, heterogeneous forests improve prey capture, delivery to nestlings, and reproductive success for Spotted Owls in southern California. Condor, 125(1), duac048, https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithapp/duac048 Yao, Mengqi; Bharadwaj, Meghana; Zhang, Zheng; Jin, Baihong; Callaway, Duncan S (2022): Predicting electricity infrastructure induced wildfire risk in California. Environmental Research Letters, 17(9), 094035, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac8d18 Funding: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, grant/award no. 8741: California Forest Observatory (URI: https://forestobservatory.com/about.html) Coverage: LATITUDE: 37.225000 * LONGITUDE: -118.848000 Event(s): California_Forest_Observatory * LATITUDE: 37.225000 * LONGITUDE: -118.848000 * LOCATION: California, USA * METHOD/DEVICE: Satellite imagery (SATI) Comment: Further funding: * California Tahoe Conservancy Agreement #CTA19022R * Tahoe Fund Grant #20190828 Parameter(s): Metric, description (Metric descr) * PI: Anderson, Christopher (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7392-4368, christopher@planet.com) Unit (Unit) * PI: Anderson, Christopher (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7392-4368, christopher@planet.com) Date/time start (Date/time start) * PI: Anderson, Christopher (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7392-4368, christopher@planet.com) * METHOD/DEVICE: Satellite derived Date/time end (Date/time end) * PI: Anderson, Christopher (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7392-4368, christopher@planet.com) * METHOD/DEVICE: Satellite derived Ground sampling distance [m] (GSD) * PI: Anderson, Christopher (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7392-4368, christopher@planet.com) * METHOD/DEVICE: Satellite derived Bounding box (B box) * PI: Anderson, Christopher (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7392-4368, christopher@planet.com) * METHOD/DEVICE: Satellite derived Raster graphic, GeoTIFF format (GeoTIFF) * PI: Anderson, Christopher (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7392-4368, christopher@planet.com) * METHOD/DEVICE: Satellite derived Raster graphic, GeoTIFF format (File Size) [Bytes] (GeoTIFF (Size)) * PI: Anderson, Christopher (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7392-4368, christopher@planet.com) * METHOD/DEVICE: Satellite derived Raster graphic, GeoTIFF format (Media Type) (GeoTIFF (Type)) * PI: Anderson, Christopher (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7392-4368, christopher@planet.com) * METHOD/DEVICE: Satellite derived Raster graphic, GeoTIFF format (MD5 Hash) (GeoTIFF (Hash)) * PI: Anderson, Christopher (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7392-4368, christopher@planet.com) * METHOD/DEVICE: Satellite derived License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) (URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Status: Curation Level: Basic curation (URI: https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/Curation_levels) Size: 343 data points Files: All files referred to in data matrix can be downloaded in one go as ZIP or TAR (PANGAEA user account required). To download single files, use the filename from data matrix appended to "https://download.pangaea.de/dataset/989871/files/". */ Metric descr Unit Date/time start Date/time end GSD [m] B box GeoTIFF GeoTIFF (Size) [Bytes] GeoTIFF (Type) GeoTIFF (Hash) Canopy cover percent 2016-08-01 2016-10-01 3 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyCover-2016-Fall-00003m.tif 14 GBytes application/octet-stream 31921da7b15f8d841042689361b3cca0 Canopy cover percent 2020-03-01 2020-05-01 3 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyCover-2020-Spring-00003m.tif 14.9 GBytes application/octet-stream 097a066254331fe7d1d9928f507e526e Canopy height meters 2016-08-01 2016-10-01 3 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyHeight-2016-Fall-00003m.tif 8.6 GBytes application/octet-stream cc3886eee3d7e34a0457464b493e373c Canopy height meters 2020-03-01 2020-05-01 3 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyHeight-2020-Spring-00003m.tif 8.6 GBytes application/octet-stream 2a8a4bb5203dfe39b078597867153024 Canopy base height meters 2016-04-01 2016-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyBaseHeight-2016-Summer-00010m.tif 689.9 MBytes application/octet-stream 9e52330bc54e20ae3a589893db105534 Canopy base height meters 2017-04-01 2017-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyBaseHeight-2017-Summer-00010m.tif 639.1 MBytes application/octet-stream 8918698b6bae9f300b78baf2bc3bb372 Canopy base height meters 2018-04-01 2018-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyBaseHeight-2018-Summer-00010m.tif 619.6 MBytes application/octet-stream d8ea2478a56009342b85b58c7a187f30 Canopy base height meters 2019-04-01 2019-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyBaseHeight-2019-Summer-00010m.tif 663.1 MBytes application/octet-stream 77b3efb5fbfd09af566b80ed29f0657f Canopy base height meters 2020-04-01 2020-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyBaseHeight-2020-Summer-00010m.tif 681.2 MBytes application/octet-stream 06534d51d209b7b04c071d4d2a3c2a0f Canopy bulk density kilograms_per_cubic_meter 2016-04-01 2016-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyBulkDensity-2016-Summer-00010m.tif 1013.2 MBytes application/octet-stream 3ef87577b59dfa8f03aa2809f5f981cf Canopy bulk density kilograms_per_cubic_meter 2017-04-01 2017-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyBulkDensity-2017-Summer-00010m.tif 704.8 MBytes image/tiff 861ca24f79184eb23970268cf68c4f26 Canopy bulk density kilograms_per_cubic_meter 2018-04-01 2018-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyBulkDensity-2018-Summer-00010m.tif 722.8 MBytes image/tiff 4d038f3e3d97968d80806bca9be3109e Canopy bulk density kilograms_per_cubic_meter 2019-04-01 2019-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyBulkDensity-2019-Summer-00010m.tif 739.1 MBytes image/tiff 958279569bf1b4e7b44c4a4942b5733b Canopy bulk density kilograms_per_cubic_meter 2020-04-01 2020-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyBulkDensity-2020-Summer-00010m.tif 746.4 MBytes image/tiff 59a71296c6e920c093de32b8b650409f Canopy cover percent 2016-04-01 2016-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyLayerCount-2016-Summer-00010m.tif 502 MBytes application/octet-stream ed9798701fb4a33ee4e4ebcb3a89fc03 Canopy cover percent 2017-04-01 2017-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyLayerCount-2017-Summer-00010m.tif 499.7 MBytes application/octet-stream 6694792e9e25b692eb9d67a19fd47925 Canopy cover percent 2018-04-01 2018-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyLayerCount-2018-Summer-00010m.tif 499.8 MBytes application/octet-stream 6978e93e6b255fcb9e686539ccc415bb Canopy cover percent 2019-04-01 2019-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyLayerCount-2019-Summer-00010m.tif 503.5 MBytes application/octet-stream 4640d1454281a09491c4764f728cd660 Canopy cover percent 2020-04-01 2020-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyLayerCount-2020-Summer-00010m.tif 530.5 MBytes application/octet-stream a16edaef0eae5469a6450b5ef8088bdf Canopy height meters 2016-04-01 2016-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyHeight-2016-Summer-00010m.tif 1.7 GBytes application/octet-stream bd3b45149e14a154c2428f2a3c85b5b4 Canopy height meters 2017-04-01 2017-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyHeight-2017-Summer-00010m.tif 1.7 GBytes application/octet-stream e95473314d202132b5d665b99cbc5f26 Canopy height meters 2018-04-01 2018-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyHeight-2018-Summer-00010m.tif 1.7 GBytes application/octet-stream b8afbc9f8b566e131b8f77233b80ffc9 Canopy height meters 2019-04-01 2019-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyHeight-2019-Summer-00010m.tif 1.8 GBytes application/octet-stream 81e18ecc88bf41e4e460453242994273 Canopy height meters 2020-04-01 2020-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyHeight-2020-Summer-00010m.tif 1.8 GBytes application/octet-stream 4536590285957462ed23ada3db58e6b0 Canopy layer count count 2016-04-01 2016-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyCover-2016-Summer-00010m.tif 2.9 GBytes application/octet-stream 6856055a9beefbcdb34f50ba415f4f9a Canopy layer count count 2017-04-01 2017-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyCover-2017-Summer-00010m.tif 3 GBytes application/octet-stream 6757376752aa8604009a953b55a7eb2a Canopy layer count count 2018-04-01 2018-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyCover-2018-Summer-00010m.tif 3 GBytes application/octet-stream 2fd3b93605cde67200f890f5c0bb9690 Canopy layer count count 2019-04-01 2019-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyCover-2019-Summer-00010m.tif 3.1 GBytes application/octet-stream fb5da5506c30edbfb3f83ff8d20494a8 Canopy layer count count 2020-04-01 2020-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-CanopyCover-2020-Summer-00010m.tif 3.1 GBytes application/octet-stream f9b1e119bf96b5c0d072e2ec14d0730d Dry vegetation cover percent 2016-04-01 2016-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-DryVegetation-2016-Spring-00010m.tif 2 GBytes application/octet-stream ccc5594e185e3bf694b980b566bbd1f7 Dry vegetation cover percent 2017-04-01 2017-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-DryVegetation-2017-Spring-00010m.tif 1.6 GBytes application/octet-stream 95ac319cc4ae7bbdf202adeea4d2220e Dry vegetation cover percent 2018-04-01 2018-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-DryVegetation-2018-Spring-00010m.tif 2 GBytes application/octet-stream b834bc823f18db5b2c8e50a17d0f7d76 Dry vegetation cover percent 2019-04-01 2019-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-DryVegetation-2019-Spring-00010m.tif 3.5 GBytes application/octet-stream b5faaeda6480f426d469f700a2c0187b Dry vegetation cover percent 2020-04-01 2020-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-DryVegetation-2020-Spring-00010m.tif 3.4 GBytes application/octet-stream 85676f616f151ebe4adc871a8cd65764 Green vegetation cover percent 2016-04-01 2016-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-GreenVegetation-2016-Spring-00010m.tif 2 GBytes application/octet-stream 3a5970850e74d8e58dd1cfb36bdfad93 Green vegetation cover percent 2017-04-01 2017-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-GreenVegetation-2017-Spring-00010m.tif 2.1 GBytes application/octet-stream e769322ff5e2ef96e95a37895eccc7e1 Green vegetation cover percent 2018-04-01 2018-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-GreenVegetation-2018-Spring-00010m.tif 2.1 GBytes application/octet-stream c0e920d74866091aac6a0ab2efcb3612 Green vegetation cover percent 2019-04-01 2019-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-GreenVegetation-2019-Spring-00010m.tif 3.7 GBytes application/octet-stream b1bed41d70c0817421feec59b222eb6b Green vegetation cover percent 2020-04-01 2020-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-GreenVegetation-2020-Spring-00010m.tif 3.7 GBytes application/octet-stream 4c27bc84e9375fbde765e3e5be974c74 Ladder fuel density percent 2016-04-01 2016-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-LadderFuelDensity-2016-Summer-00010m.tif 2.2 GBytes application/octet-stream 86fcc0296b37128f2916e4daae81a16f Ladder fuel density percent 2017-04-01 2017-10-01 10 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application/octet-stream 91ec583429620f3ce87620751a05d0ae Surface fuels categorical 2017-04-01 2017-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-SurfaceFuels-2017-Summer-00010m.tif 1.4 GBytes application/octet-stream 93085d044f2bc67c80a9a82f7b366c75 Surface fuels categorical 2018-04-01 2018-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-SurfaceFuels-2018-Summer-00010m.tif 1.5 GBytes application/octet-stream 52ab03b0733bf29e104a3e56a704afbd Surface fuels categorical 2019-04-01 2019-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-SurfaceFuels-2019-Summer-00010m.tif 1.5 GBytes application/octet-stream c0cd1c9e0718337bee53e02917036660 Surface fuels categorical 2020-04-01 2020-10-01 10 [-124.518,32.362,-113.191,42.024] California-Vegetation-SurfaceFuels-2020-Summer-00010m.tif 1.5 GBytes application/octet-stream ed8dd870894beb0a48c3fb73725f1faa