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GLAH14 — Land Surface Elevation

Version 34 — User Guide · ATBD

GLAH14 provides 40 Hz land surface elevation data with additional atmospheric and surface characterization fields.

Quick Start

using SpaceLiDAR, DataFrames

g = granule("GLAH14_634_1102_001_0071_0_01_0001.H5")
t = table(g)
df = DataFrame(t)

Default Columns

Column HDF5 Path Type
longitude Data_40HZ/Geolocation/d_lon Float64
latitude Data_40HZ/Geolocation/d_lat Float64
height Data_40HZ/Elevation_Surfaces/d_elev Float64
datetime Data_40HZ/DS_UTCTime_40 DateTime
saturation_correction Data_40HZ/Elevation_Corrections/d_satElevCorr Float64
clouds Data_40HZ/Elevation_Flags/elv_cloud_flg Bool
gain Data_40HZ/Waveform/i_gval_rcv Int32
reflectivity Data_40HZ/Reflectivity/d_reflctUC Float64
attitude Data_40HZ/Quality/sigma_att_flg Int8
saturation Data_40HZ/Quality/sat_corr_flg Int8
elev_use_flg Data_40HZ/Quality/elev_use_flg Int8
i_numPk Data_40HZ/Waveform/i_numPk Int32
height_reference Data_40HZ/Geophysical/d_DEM_elv Float64

Additional Fields

GLAH14 includes extra surface characterization compared to GLAH06: :clouds, :gain, :reflectivity, :attitude, and :saturation.

Processing is the same as GLAH06 — see GLAH06 for coordinate system and quality flag details.