Vegetation Canopy and Acoustic Biodiversity Data for Kruger Park and Sonoma County

NASA's GEDI satellite data provides vegetation canopy metrics for South Africa's Greater Kruger National Park from 2007 to 2024. The Soundscapes to Landscapes project contributed 1,399 site recordings from Sonoma County, California, collected during bird breeding seasons from 2017 to 2022. Both datasets are hosted on AWS Open Data and are licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Use Cases

• Modeling woody canopy structure change based on relative height and canopy cover metrics.
• Analyzing biodiversity patterns from acoustic recordings stratified by land cover type.
• Studying savanna ecosystem dynamics using wall-to-wall spatial data fusion.
• Training models for vegetation mapping using fused satellite and topography data.
• Conducting temporal soundscape analysis based on diurnal and nocturnal recordings.

Strengths

• Vegetation data spans 17 years (2007-2024), providing a long-term time series.
• Acoustic data includes recordings from 1,399 sites across diverse land cover types.
• Canopy metrics are derived from high-resolution GEDI, Landsat, and PALSAR data fusion.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Acoustic site location data is incomplete, as it was only provided when permitted by landowners.

Provenance

Source

NASA GEDI mission and Soundscapes to Landscapes citizen science project.

Collection Method

Satellite data modeling and in situ acoustic recording.

Time Range

2007-2024 for vegetation; 2017-2022 for acoustics.

Freshness

Vegetation data is updated through 2024; acoustic data collection ended in 2022.

Geography

Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa, and Sonoma County, California, USA.