Band Name:  OLS Biomass

Title:  Biomass Map using OLS approach

Description:

contains predicted biomass over Anne Arundel and Howard Counties using OLS 
regression.

Project:  CMS

Author:  Anu Swatantran, Laura Duncanson, Ross Nelson    E-mail:  aswatan@umd.edu

Data file created on:  2011/11/25

Content Type:   TIFF    Pixel Size:  30

Location/Study Area:  Maryland (Anne Arundel and Howard Counties)

Coordinates:   West Bounding Longitude: 310946  East Bounding Longitude: 380966

               North Bounding Latitude: 4360060.363   South Bounding Latitude: 4285900.363

Data Acquisition Dates/Temporal Coverage:  Unknown

NO DATA value: 0

Coordinate System: UTM    Time Zone: 18   Datum: NAD83

Data Format: Float

Data Units: Mg/ha

Data Scaled:   No

Data Creation Method:

This dataset contains predicted aboveground biomass values over Anne Arundel 
and Howard Counties. The Ordinary Least Square Regression method was used here.
Regression equations for each strata were developed by Ross Nelson (methods 
outlined in presentation folder) 

*Note that only lidar variables were used to develop these regression equations