Integrating profiling LIDAR with Landsat data for regional boreal forest canopy attribute estimation and change characterization

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 123-137

  Wulder, Michael A ^a   Han, Tian ^a   White, Joanne C ^a   Sweda, Tatsuo ^b   Tsuzuki, Hayato ^b  

^a PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Change detection; Data integration; Forest canopy attribute; Land cover; Landsat; Monitoring; Profiling LIDAR; Segment

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; DATA INTEGRATION; FOREST CANOPY ATTRIBUTE; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; PROFILING LIDAR;

FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING;

OPTICAL RADAR;

BOREAL FOREST; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST DYNAMICS; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LIDAR; MONITORING; SATELLITE DATA;

FORESTRY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34249710084     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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