Modeling lidar waveforms in heterogeneous and discrete canopies

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1943-1958

  Ni Meister, Wenge ^a   Jupp, David L B ^b   Dubayah, Ralph ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometric optical and radiative transfer (GORT) model; Heterogeneous plant canopies; Lidar waveforms

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VEGETATION;

BOREAL ECOSYSTEM-ATMOSPHERE STUDY; GEOMETRIC OPTICAL AND RADIATIVE TRANSFER; LIDAR WAVEFORMS; SCANNING LIDAR IMAGER OF CANOPIES BY ECHO RECOVERY; VEGETATION CANOPY LIDAR;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0035441285     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.951085     Document Type: Article

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