Quantifying canopy height underestimation by laser pulse penetration in small-footprint airborne laser scanning data

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 650-657

  Gaveau, David L A ^a   Hill, Ross A ^b  

^a Wildlife Conservation Society Bogor   (Indonesia)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SAMPLING; SCANNING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING (ALS); DIGITAL CANOPY HEIGHT MODEL (DCHM);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 1542396705     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m03-023     Document Type: Article

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