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No, 1 micron data does not penetrate water.

Yes. GEDI measures the height of vegetation above the surface, so inundation (e.g. tides) will impact the estimation of canopy height. Validation of GEDI products is an active area of research, but targeted NASA LVIS acquisitions in the Pongara region (Gabon) are being used for this purpose. Dr. Lol...

@ srleone9 I unfortunately can't help with the cygwin issue, for that specifically, I would defer to: support@earthdata.nasa.gov However, it looks like your use case is that you'd like to bulk download many different ASTER GDEM files directly from the LP DAAC Data Pool? There are a couple of solutio...

Relative Height is calculated by the following equation: elev_highestreturn - elev_lowestmode. The lower RH metrics (e.g., RH10) will often have negative values, particularly in low canopy cover conditions. This is because a relatively high fraction of the waveform energy is from the ground and belo...

GEDI coverage beams (beams 0000, 0001, 0010, and 0011) were designed to penetrate canopies of up to 95% canopy cover under “average” conditions. For this reason, it is recommended to preference the GEDI full power beams in cases of dense vegetation.

User Question from GEDI NASA Earthdata Webinar: Can we use GEDI data over Mangroves, and which dataset(s) to use?

User Question from GEDI NASA Earthdata Webinar: Can GEDI be used to retrieve bathymetry data on shallow lakes?

User Question from GEDI NASA Earthdata Webinar: Is it necessary to differentiate GEDI data from coverage beams vs. from full power beams?

User Question from NASA Earthdata Webinar: What is the detection limit of GEDI height metrics over rangeland and grassland ecosystems?

User Question from NASA Earthdata Webinar: How does GEDI perform on shorter but dense canopies, such as wetlands with ~3m high canopies?