Digital surface, terrain, and canopy height models for Boise Basin Experimental Forest in 2018

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_metadata_RDS-2020-0041.html   Metadata file in HTML format containing a description of the content, quality, and other characteristics of the data.
_metadata_RDS-2020-0041.xml   Metadata file in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format containing a description of the content, quality, and other characteristics of the data.
BBEF_2018_CHM.tif \Data Georeferenced TIFF (GeoTiff) file containing the 2018 Boise Basin Experimental Forest vegetation canopy height model (CHM), which represents the height of vegetation above the ground surface.
BBEF_2018_DSM.tif \Data Georeferenced TIFF (GeoTiff) file containing the 2018 Boise Basin Experimental Forest digital surface model (DSM), which gives the highest lidar return in each one-meter grid cell.
BBEF_2018_DTM.tif \Data Georeferenced TIFF (GeoTiff) file containing the 2018 Boise Basin Experimental Forest digital terrain model (DTM), which represents the ground surface with vegetation and other non-ground returns removed.
USGS_LPC_ID_FEMAHQ_2018_w1574n2478_LAS_2019_meta.xml \Supplements Metadata file associated with one of the original 176 LAZ files downloaded from the National Elevation Dataset (https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/datasets/)
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