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Reanalyzing GEDI Data for Detection of Ancient Maya Buildings

Supplementary material for the study: Space Lidar for Archaeology? Reanalyzing GEDI Data for Detection of Ancient Maya Buildings.

R Scripts for the analysis and visualisation of GEDI Data, particular with the application to Archaeology in densely forested areas.

Content

• Example_Figures: Examples of plots produced from the GEDI data.
  • Transects/ : Elevation Transect plots, created as in `GEDI_Yucatan_Elevation_Transects.R´.
• Data: Data used in the study.
  • Analysis_Data/ : Quality and biophyiscal information for footprints used in the study.
  • Ancillary_Data/ : Ancillary spatial data for visualisations.
• R: Scripts and utilities for the analysis of GEDI data.

Links

• GEDI Mission Overview: Website of the GEDI project with information on the mission, instruments, applications, and data access. https://gedi.umd.edu/
• GEDI Quick Guide: GEDI Spatial Querying and Subsetting Quick Guide from NASA's Land Processes DAAC.
• rGEDI: R package for visualisation and processing of GEDI data. When possible, we recommend this be used over the functions provided in this repository, as rGEDI is regularly maintained.

Project Contributors:

Žiga Kokalj, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Johannes Mast, University of Würzburg

Funding

This research was partly funded by the Slovenian Research Agency core funding No. P2-0406.