# Ecosystem and Canopy Structural Complexity Metrics from LiDAR

## Documentation for package ‘forestr’ version 2.0.2

- DESCRIPTION file.

## Help Pages

adjust_by_user | Adjust by user height
calc_enl | Calculate rugosity and other higher level complexity metrics
calc_gap_fraction | Calculate gap fraction
calc_intensity | Intensity Statistics
calc_rugosity | Calculate rugosity and other higher level complexity metrics
calc_rumple | Calculates rumple
calc_tls_csc | Calculates rumple
calc_tls_mean_leaf_ht | Process single PCL transects.
calc_vai | Calculate vegetation area index (VAI) from normalized PCL data matrix
code_hits | Code hits
csc_metrics | Cover and sky fraction estimates
get_transect_length | Get transect length of PCL transect (in meters)
make_matrix | Make PCL matrix for higher level complexity measures
make_matrix_part_one | Make PCL matrix part one
make_matrix_part_two | Make PCL matrix part two
make_summary_matrix | Creates summary matrix
normalize_pcl | Normalize PCL data based on light saturation and attenuation
osbs | PCL transect from Ordway-Swisher Biological Station, Florida, US.
pcl_adjusted | a data frame LiDAR returns that have been split to x and z position and coded and adjusted for user height
pcl_coded | a data frame LiDAR returns that have been split to x and z position and coded
pcl_data | PCL transect from the University of Virginia
pcl_diagnostic_plot | PCL diagnostic plot
pcl_matrix | a LiDAR hit density by x, z position
pcl_norm | a data frame of normalized LiDAR return density
pcl_split | a data frame LiDAR returns that have been split to x and z position
pcl_summary | summary matrix
pcl_vai | a data frame of vegetation area index (VAI)
plot_hit_grid | Plots LiDAR hit grids of VAI
plot_pavd | Graphs Plant Area Volume Density Profiles
process_multi_pcl | Process multiplie PCL transects.
process_pcl | Process single PCL transects.
process_tls | Process single PCL transects.
read_pcl | 'read_pcl' imports PCL or portable canopy LiDAR files into the workspace and formats them.
read_pcl_multi | 'read_pcl_multi' imports PCL or portable canopy LiDAR files into the workspace and formats them.
red_pine | PCL transect from a red pine plantation in Northern Michigan, US.
split_transects_from_pcl | Split transects from PCL
write_hit_matrix_to_csv | Writes hit matrix to csv for further analysis
write_pcl_to_csv | Writes csc metrics and output variables to .csv
write_summary_matrix_to_csv | Writes csc metrics and output variables to .csv