Code and Data Availability of the paper: Mapping tree diversity in the tropical forest region of Chocó-Colombia

Code and Data Availability of the paper: Mapping tree diversity in the tropical forest region of Chocó-Colombia Published at Environmental Research Letters: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abf58a J Camilo Fagua1, Patrick Jantz1, Patrick Burns1, Richard Massey1, Jeiner Y Buitrago2, Sassan S. Saatchi3, Christopher Hakkenberg1 and Scott J. Goetz1 1 Global Earth Observation & Dynamics of Ecosystems Lab (GEODE), School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, US. 2 Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogota (Colombia). 3 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA *Corresponding author: J. Camilo Fagua, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (Building #90) 1295 S. Knoles Dr. Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Email: Camilo.Fagua@nau.edu and camilo.fagua77@gmail.com 1) The files “1_Forest_Structure_maps_in_tif” contain seven maps of forest structural metrics for the Chocó region of Colombia at 50m of spatial resolution in the raster format .tif (a) Canopy height (CH) map: CHOCO_MAP_CH (b) 50th percentile of heights (z_50) map: CHOCO_MAP_z_50 (c) Vertical Canopy Heterogeneity (VCH) map: CHOCO_MAP_VCH (d) Standard deviation of normalized heights (z_SD) map: CHOCO_MAP_z_SD (e) Horizontal standard deviation of canopy height (CH_ SD): CHOCO_MAP_CH_SD (f) Horizontal heterogeneity of canopy height (CH_H): CHOCO_MAP_CH_H (g) Rumple Index of canopy height (R_INDEX): CHOCO_MAP_R_INDEX 2) The file “2_Diversity_maps_in_tif” contains five maps of forest structural metrics for the Chocó region of Colombia at 50m of spatial resolution in the raster format .tif (a) Species richness (Richness): MAPS_MEAN_Richness (b) Shannon’s entropy index (ENS-Shannon): MAPS_MEAN_ENS_shannon (c) Simpson’s concentration index (ENS-Simpson): MAPS_MEAN_ENS_Simpson (d) Shannon diversity index (H): MAPS_MEAN_Shannon (e) Simpson diversity index (D): MAPS_MEAN_Simpson 3) The file “3_LiDAR_processing” contents data and R codes to estimate forest structural metrics from ALS-LiDAR data (.las) in an