LANDFIRE 2024 Existing Vegetation Height (EVH) CONUS
LANDFIRE's 2024 update (LF 2024) Existing Vegetation Height (EVH) represents the average height of the dominant vegetation for a 30-m cell. EVH is produced separately for tree, shrub, and herbaceous lifeforms using training data depicting the weighted average height by species cover and Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) lifeform. Decision tree models using field reference data, lidar, and Landsat are developed separately for each lifeform, then lifeform specific height class layers are merged along with land cover into a single EVH product based on the dominant lifeform of each pixel. EVH ranges are continuous for the herbaceous lifeform category ranging from 0.1 to 1 meter with decimeter increments, 0.1 to 3 meters for shrub lifeform, and 1 to 99 meters for tree lifeform. If the height values of each lifeform exceed the continuous value range, they are binned into the appropriate maximum height class. EVH is then reconciled through QA/QC measures to ensure lifeform is synchronized with Existing Vegetation Cover (EVC).
In LF 2024, the vegetation products are updated using rulesets similar to LF 2022 Update (https://landfire.gov/data/lf2022) but only for 2024 disturbances since prior disturbances were brought current using machine learning and 2023 satellite imagery during the LF 2023 Update (https://landfire.gov/data/lf2023). LF uses EVH as an input for LF 2024 Fuel Vegetation Height (FVH).
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| description | LANDFIRE's 2024 update (LF 2024) Existing Vegetation Height (EVH) represents the average height of the dominant vegetation for a 30-m cell. EVH is produced separately for tree, shrub, and herbaceous lifeforms using training data depicting the weighted average height by species cover and Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) lifeform. Decision tree models using field reference data, lidar, and Landsat are developed separately for each lifeform, then lifeform specific height class layers are merged along with land cover into a single EVH product based on the dominant lifeform of each pixel. EVH ranges are continuous for the herbaceous lifeform category ranging from 0.1 to 1 meter with decimeter increments, 0.1 to 3 meters for shrub lifeform, and 1 to 99 meters for tree lifeform. If the height values of each lifeform exceed the continuous value range, they are binned into the appropriate maximum height class. EVH is then reconciled through QA/QC measures to ensure lifeform is synchronized with Existing Vegetation Cover (EVC). In LF 2024, the vegetation products are updated using rulesets similar to LF 2022 Update (https://landfire.gov/data/lf2022) but only for 2024 disturbances since prior disturbances were brought current using machine learning and 2023 satellite imagery during the LF 2023 Update (https://landfire.gov/data/lf2023). LF uses EVH as an input for LF 2024 Fuel Vegetation Height (FVH). |
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