Indicator: Forest Canopy & Height Cover

Status	Available on Project Basis
Description	Canopy height measures the height of woody vegetation from ground to canopy top in meter increments. Canopy cover quantifies the percentage of area occupied by trees (defined as vegetation ≥5m tall) within each pixel
Unit	Canopy Height: meters Canopy Cover: percentage
Temporal Resolution	Annual, with data available since 2013
Spatial Resolution	30 meters
Data	Planet forest diligence product, which is based on: Airborne and spaceborne LiDAR data Surface reflectance data from Landsat and Sentinel-2 L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar mosaics from ALOS-PALSAR-2
Method	Planet forest diligence product methodology: Uses U-Net image regression models to predict canopy height and cover, followed by Light gradient boosting-machine regression models to predict aboveground carbon based on the predicted height, cover, and elevation data. The model converts biomass to carbon using a global mean carbon concentration of 0.476.