Estimation of above ground forest biomass from airborne discrete return laser scanner data using canopy-based quantile estimators

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 558-570

  Lim, Kevin S ^a   Treitz, Paul M ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Above ground forest biomass; Airborne laser scanning; Forest structure; Laser altimetry; LIDAR; Quantile estimators; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ERROR STATISTICS; FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEGETATION;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; LASER SCANNER DATA; ROOT MEAN-SQUARE ERROR (RMSE);

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; LASERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS;

EID: 11144345729     PISSN: 02827581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02827580410019490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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