From: Discovering forest height changes based on spaceborne lidar data of ICESat-1 in 2005 and ICESat-2 in 2019: a case study in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of China
Global forest canopy map
Height metric
R2
RMSE
Resolution
Forest border
Lefsky (2010)
90th Lorey’s height
0.67
5.9 m
Patches (Avg: 25 km2)
MODIS land cover map
Simard et al. (2011)
Maximum height (RH100)
0.7
4.4 m
1 km
GlobCover map
Wang et al. (2016)
Mean height (co−/dominant tree)
0.63
4.68 m
500 m
