Sentinel-2 Vegetation Height Model Armenia

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Countrywide vegetation height models (VHM) were generated for Armenia based on Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery within the framework of the FORACCA project. “The Forest Restoration and Climate Change in Armenia” (FORACCA) project is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The project is implemented by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research (WSL) in collaboration with Zoï Environment Network as well as the Forest Alliance of Armenia. A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model was trained in Switzerland to estimate the maximum vegetation height at the spatial resolution of the Sentinel-2 pixel of 10 m. Vegetation heights from the spatially higher-resolved VHM Lidar NFI were used as reference data for the CNN training. Then, the model was spatially transferred and VHMs for Armenia were generated annually based on available Sentinel-2 imagery from May – September of the respective year. Further details on the dataset and model to create the Sentinel-2 VHMs can be found in the paper Jiang et al. (2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2023.100099). Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.690
Metadata Access https://www.envidat.ch/api/action/package_show?id=d5dd3a3d-093e-4206-9e0b-76c6f21c9be1
Provenance
Creator Marius, Rüetschi,; Christian, Ginzler, 0000-0001-6365-2151
Publisher EnviDat
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC, Contract number 81083763
Rights cc-by-sa; Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA)
OpenAccess true
Contact envidat(at)wsl.ch
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Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Version 1.0
Discipline Environmental Sciences
Spatial Coverage (43.350W, 38.797S, 46.680E, 41.319N); Switzerland
Temporal Coverage Begin 2025-07-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2025-08-15T00:00:00Z