README.md

Contents

This repo contains code I authored or heavily adapted to:

• extract vegetation plant area density, index, and other metrics reflecting vegetation structure from pre-processed point cloud data (mostly adapted from supervisors),
• process microclimate and macroclimate data according to the the,
• create publication ready figures,

as part of my unpublished Master's thesis Assessing the Impact of TLS-Derived Vegetation Structure on Microclimatic Variability in Taita Hills, Kenya. Comments are provided. Code is semi-reproducible and serves as supplementary material to the thesis. File dependencies are not provided due to file size limitations, licensing reasons, and time constraints.

Temperature Data

• TMS-4 sensor readings processing pipeline
• Weather station readings processing pipeline
• ERA-5 download and processing pipeline
• Altitudinal lapse rate calculation pipeline
• ERA-5 lapse rate correction pipeline

GIS

• TMS-4 sensor location as .kmz to (for GIS import)

Figures

• Figure displaying monthly temperature ranges
• Violinplot displaying temperature ranges
• Figure comparing average plant area density of 4 sites
• Figure displaying vertically layered PAD for one site
• Figure comparing mean PAD of all sites and some other metric

Linear Models

• Correlation matrix creation pipeline
• Linear modeling pipeline

License

• CC-BY-4.0¹

Footnotes

1. Please note that the license applies only to code provided by this repo but neither the thesis's text body or other output created for the thesis. ↩