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Global Vegetation Height Frequency Distributions from the ICESAT GLAS instrument produced as part of the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO)

Publisher
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Updated
8 July 2026
Topic
Mapping

Summary

This dataset collection provides global (between 60 S and 80 N) vegetation height (or object height) frequency distributions per half by half degree longitude and latitude derived from ICESAT Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) waveform data.

This data was produced as part of the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO)

Data links

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Data demonstration 19/6/2018
Dataset Homepage 7/9/2016

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
02 November 2017
Harvest GUID
85e7d70a74244c73b71446940e05cde6
Extent (Latitude)
80.0° to -60.0°
Extent (Longitude)
-180.0° to 180.0°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
Dataset reference date (publication)
2015-06-28T11:00:23
Dataset reference date (creation)
2015-06-28T11:00:23
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Access constraints
Registered; Licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Responsible party
(author, ceda_officer); University of Wales Swansea (author); NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre (metadata_owner, publisher, point_of_contact, distributer, curator, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
series
Metadata language
eng

Contact

Enquiries

info@nceo.ac.uk

Licence information

Registered; Licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/