Forest canopy recovery from the 1938 hurricane and subsequent salvage damage measured with airborne LiDAR

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 142-153

  Weishampel, John F ^a   Drake, Jason B ^a,d   Cooper, Amanda ^a   Blair, J Bryan ^b   Hofton, Michelle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Ecosystem recovery; Forest canopy; Harvard Forest; Hurricane; Land use; Legacy; LiDAR; LISA; Spatial autocorrelation; Vertical structure

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; AUTOCORRELATION; ECOSYSTEMS; HURRICANE EFFECTS; SALVAGING; TOPOGRAPHY;

HARVARD FOREST; HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPE; INFREQUENT DISTURBANCE (LID); SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION;

FORESTRY;

AUTOCORRELATION; DISTURBANCE; FOREST CANOPY; HURRICANE; LIDAR; NATURAL DISASTER; REMOTE SENSING; SALVAGING; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY;

HARVARD FOREST; MASSACHUSETTS; NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249906782     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.12.016     Document Type: Article

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