Modeling lidar waveforms with time-dependent stochastic radiative transfer theory for remote estimations of forest structure

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 15, 2003, Pages

  Kotchenova, Svetlana Y ^a   Shabanov, Nikolay V ^a   Knyazikhin, Yuri ^a   Davis, Anthony B ^b   Dubayah, Ralph ^c   Myneni, Ranga B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Lidar waveforms; Multiple scattering; Remote sensing of vegetation canopies; Time dependent radiative transfer model

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; LIDAR; MODELING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING;

CANADA; MARYLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1342333844     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd003288     Document Type: Article

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