Using airborne and ground-based ranging lidar to measure canopy structure in Australian forests

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 607-622

  Lovell, J L ^a   Jupp, D L B ^a   Culvenor, D S ^a   Coops, N C ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SCANNING;

CANOPY STRUCTURE; GROUND-BASED SCANNING RANGEFINDER SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 1542501547     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m03-026     Document Type: Article

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