Effective aerodynamic roughness estimated from airborne laser altimeter measurements of surface features

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1545-1558

  De Vries, A C ^a   Kustas, W P ^b   Ritchie, J C ^b   Klaassen, W ^c   Menenti, M ^d   Rango, A ^e   Prueger, J H ^f  

^a ROYAL HASKONINGDHV   (Netherlands)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^f USDA ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; LASERS; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT; TOWERS; WIND;

AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESS;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRBORNE SENSING; DUNE; LAND SURFACE; LASER; ROUGHNESS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; WIND;

NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037800339     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160110115997     Document Type: Article

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