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Identify forest canopy gaps using lidar: Script

Published by U.S. Geological Survey | Department of the Interior | Catalog Last Checked: August 01, 2026 at 03:03 AM | Dataset Last Updated: January 28, 2026 at 12:00 AM
A duplicate digital object identifier (https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YONHY2) was accidentally published for this resource. The correct DOI for referencing this product is https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BLTSTZ. This script uses Lidar digital elevation data to locate forest canopy gaps and produces a canopy height model, a broken forest shapefile, an analysis polygons shapefile, and a forest canopy gaps shapefile. The Lidar input datasets are raster TIFF's and one is the digital surface model (first return elevation, canopy), and the other is the digital terrain model (last return elevation, bare earth). The Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMRR) Program's 2010 Landcover/Landuse shapefiles were used to identify the analysis polygons for this project. Forest_Canopy_Gap_Locator.r: Subset the dataset and restructure as needed to perform calculations of DPR (daily predation rate) and other values. The script was developed July 2019 in R v. 3.6.0.

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