Locating and estimating the extent of Delmarva fox squirrel habitat using an airborne LiDAR profiler

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 96, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 292-301

  Nelson, Ross ^a   Keller, Cherry ^b   Ratnaswamy, Mary ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne laser; Habitat mapping; Profiling LiDAR

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING;

AIRBORNE LASERS; CANOPY CLOSURES; DELMARVA FOX SQUIRREL (DFS); VIDEOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL RADAR;

HABITAT; LIDAR; REMOTE SENSING; RODENT;

DATA PROCESSING; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS NIGER; SCIURUS NIGER CINEREUS;

EID: 21444446665     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2005.02.012     Document Type: Article

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