Maps of forest vertical structure for Colombia, a megadiverse country.

J Camilo Fagua1, Patrick Jantz2, Patrick Burns2, Samuel M Jantz3 John B. Kilbride4, and Scott J Goetz2. 1-Grupo de Biodiversidad, Biotecnología y Conservación de Ecosistemas, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia—Sede Bogotá, Bogotá D.C. 111321, Colombia. 2-Global Earth Observation & Dynamics of Ecosystems Lab (GEODE), School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 85123, USA. 3- National Institute for Modeling Biological Systems (NIMBioS), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA. 4- Renoster Systems Inc, 21750 Hardy Oak Blvd Ste 104, PMB 37519, San Antonio, TX 78258-4946, USA. We make available five maps on the forest vertical structure of Colombia with relatively high spatial resolution (25m). These maps were constructed by developing predictions of GEDI (Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation) metrics of forest vertical structure using a set of 80 remote sensing predictors (temporal metrics) that included data from multispectral (Sentinel-2) and SAR- Synthetic Aperture Radar (Sentinel-1 and ALOS-PALSAR) sensors. The maps are: 1) Canopy height (CH): CH_COLOMBIA_FOREST.tif 2) Total cover (COVER): COVER_COLOMBIA_FOREST.tif 3) Foliage Height Diversity (FHD): FHD_PAI_COLOMBIA_FOREST.tif 4) Total Plant Area Index (PAI): PAI_COLOMBIA_FOREST.tif 5) Height of half the accumulated energy (RH50): RH50_COLOMBIA_FOREST.tif