Separating the ground and airborne laser sampling phases to estimate tropical forest basal area, volume, and biomass

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 311-326

  Nelson, Ross ^a   Oderwald, Richard ^b   Gregoire, Timothy G ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SAMPLING; GROUND LASER SAMPLING; LASER MEASUREMENTS; TROPICAL FORESTS;

BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BASAL AREA; BIOMASS; FOREST VOLUME; LASER; TREE VOLUME; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICS;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0031156268     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00213-1     Document Type: Article

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