GEDI Shot number and shot index

[zoe_sig]

Hello Team,
I am writing to get your suggestions/Insights on how to find the shot number and shot index , so that , I can work further with L2A data. I have gone through all the available tutorial and documentations. But I am not able understand how to get shot number and shot index for my AOI.

[rupeshornl]

Hi @zoe_sig , The following tutorials show how to get the `shot_number` variable for GEDI L4A. All GEDI footprint data (L1B, L2A, L2B, L4A) use the same `shot_number` scheme.

https://github.com/ornldaac/gedi_tutorials/blob/main/3_gedi_l4a_exploring_data.ipynb
https://github.com/ornldaac/gedi_tutorials/blob/main/reconstruct_L4A_AGBD_L2A_metrics.ipynb