Canopy Structural Complexity Metrics from Terrestrial LiDAR and Light Data from 11 Eastern US Forests

These data were collected during 2016 and 207 using portable canopy lidar and a Decagon handheld ceptometer. CSC data include measures of canopy rugosity, top rugosity, porosity, vegetation area index, mean leaf height, mean outer canopy height, max canopy height derived using the forestr R package (version 1.0.0). <br><br>Light data include LAI and fPAR. <br><br>Sites included are Arnot Forest, University of Virginia, Rice Rivers Center, and NEON tower plots at Harvard Forest, Mountain Lake Biological Station, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Smithsonian Environmental Center, University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center, Talladega National Forest, Ordway-Swisher Biological Station