Mapping height and biomass of mangrove forests in Everglades National Park with SRTM elevation data

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 299-311

  Simard, Marc ^a   Zhang, Keqi ^b   Rivera Monroy, Victor H ^c   Ross, Michael S ^b   Ruiz, Pablo L ^b   Castañeda Moya, Edward ^c   Twilley, Robert R ^c   Rodriguez, Ernesto ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK (ENP); MANGROVE FORESTS; MAPPING HEIGHT;

PHOTOGRAMMETRY;

BIOMASS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HEIGHT; LIDAR; MANGROVE; REMOTE SENSING;

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 33644677069     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.72.3.299     Document Type: Article

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