xATLy: Extending ICESat-2 ATL03 and ATL08 Products for Land and Vegetation Analyses

Overview

The xATLy toolbox facilitates the reading, visualization, and processing of ICESat-2 ATL03 and ATL08 in HDF5 format with the end goal of generating customized along-track terrain and canopy height data sets.

Features

Overview of the toolbox features include:

• Read and write raw ATL03 point cloud
• Derive classified ATL03 point cloud
• Derive aboveground level (normalized) point clouds
• Read ATL08 segment-level, canopy and terrain attributes
• Plot ATL03 point clouds
• Calculate custom canopy and terrain heights
• Generate and write auxillary geospatial layers as shapefile or KML
  • Reference ground tracks
  • 100-m ATL08 segment-level polygons
  • Custom segment-level polygons

Examples

Explore the following examples on how to use the toolbox features.

• Working with ICE2Veg toolbox | MATLAB Live Script | pdf
• Custom Canopy and Terrain Height Calculations | MATLAB Live Script | pdf

System Requirements and toolbox installation

• The toolbox requires MATLAB (Release 2021+), the Curve fitting toolbox, Mapping toolbox and the Statistics toolbox
• To install the toolbox, download the package file and follow MATLAB'S documentation on installing packages.

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Cite As

Lonesome Malambo (2023). xATLy: Extending ICESat-2 ATL03 and ATL08 Products for Land and Vegetation Analyses (https://github.com/Oht0nger/xATLy/releases/tag/1.0.0), GitHub. Retrieved Retrieval date.