Modeling airborne laser scanning data for the spatial generation of critical forest parameters in fire behavior modeling

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 177-186

  Riaño, David ^a,b   Meier, Erich ^c   Allgöwer, Britta ^c   Chuvieco, Emilio ^a   Ustin, Susan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Crown base height; Crown bulk density; Fuel modeling; LIDAR; Surface canopy cover; Surface canopy height; Tree cover; Tree height

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DATA REDUCTION; FIRE HAZARDS; FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

SURFACE CANOPY;

REMOTE SENSING;

FOREST CANOPY; FOREST FIRE; LASER METHOD; LIDAR; MODELING; STAND STRUCTURE;

EID: 0141794157     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00098-1     Document Type: Article

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