Volumetric lidar return patterns from an old-growth tropical rainforest canopy

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 409-415

  Weishampel, J F ^a   Blair, J B ^b   Knox, R G ^b   Dubayah, R ^c   Clark, D B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; LASER METHOD; LIDAR; RAINFOREST; TROPICAL FOREST;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0034688122     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311600210939     Document Type: Article

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