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User Question: Which of GEDI's eight beams are full power beams and which are coverage beams? Does that change between products?

The LP DAAC is not involved in developing the rGEDI package, nor have I used it personally, and thus I cannot make a determination on which is better to use. I (Cole) personally used Python to develop my tools and tutorials for working with GEDI simply because I am more comfortable programming in Py...

User Submitted Question: Is it better to use python than rGEDI package?

That is correct, there are not single lat/lon locations for every single value represented in each waveform. Rather, for every GEDI shot, there are lat/lon locations representing the start of the RX window (latitude/longitude_bin0) and the end of the RX window (latitude/longitude_lastbin). In the Ge...

User Submitted Question: There are not single Lat/Long locations for every single return in the waveform, right? The waveform product is like a distribution function of elevations / canopy height within a 25 m footprint?

The LP DAAC has released the “Getting Started with GEDI L1B, L2A, and L2B Data in Python” Jupyter Notebook Tutorial Series, and it can be accessed at the following links: Getting Started with GEDI L1B Data in Python Jupyter Notebook Getting Started with GEDI L2A Data in Python Jupyter Notebook Gett...

Are there Jupyter Notebook Python Tutorials available for GEDI L1B-L2 Data?

Find and Use GEDI, You Will—Getting Started with Global Ecosystems Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Lidar Data NASA Earthdata Webinar NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) mission was launched on December 5, 2018 and is attached to the International Space Station. GEDI is a full-wavefor...

Here are three potential solutions to your question: 1. The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS). AppEEARS is an easy to use web application for accessing and transforming geospatial data from a variety of federal data archives, that enables users to subset dat...