Shadow allometry: Estimating tree structural parameters using hyperspatial image analysis

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-25

  Greenberg, Jonathan Asher ^a   Dobrowski, Solomon Z ^b   Ustin, Susan L ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Biomass; Crown area; DBH; Forestry; Hyperspatial imagery; IKONOS; Lake Tahoe Basin; Shadow; Stem density; Trees; Vectorization

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS;

CROWN AREA; DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHT (DBH); HYPERSPATIAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; SHADOW ALLOMETRY;

FORESTRY;

ALLOMETRY; CANOPY; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TREE;

BIOMASS; CORRELATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; TREES;

LAKE TAHOE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 22544465305     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2005.02.015     Document Type: Article

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