Lidar remote sensing of biophysical properties of tolerant northern hardwood forests

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 658-678

  Lim, Kevin ^a   Treitz, Paul ^a   Baldwin, Ken ^b   Morrison, Ian ^b   Green, Jim ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c Optech Incorporated   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DATA REDUCTION; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR;

TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF); TOLERANT HARDWOOD FORESTS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 1542396695     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m03-025     Document Type: Article

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