Use of large-footprint scanning airborne Lidar to estimate forest stand characteristics in the western cascades of Oregon

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 298-308

  Means, Joseph E ^a   Acker, Steven A ^a   Harding, David J ^b   Blair, J Bryan ^b   Lefsky, Michael A ^c   Cohen, Warren B ^c   Harmon, Mark E ^a   McKee, W Arthur ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL SENSORS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RADAR IMAGING; VEGETATION;

AIRBORNE SCANNING LIDARS;

REMOTE SENSING;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CANOPY; ESTIMATION METHOD; LIDAR; STAND STRUCTURE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033102470     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(98)00091-1     Document Type: Article

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