Remote sensing of species mixtures in conifer plantations using LiDAR height and intensity data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 509-522

  Donoghue, Daniel N M ^a   Watt, Peter J ^c   Cox, Nicholas J ^a   Wilson, Jimmy ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Ae Village   (United Kingdom)

^c Pöyry Forest Industry Limited   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Forestry; LiDAR; Species mixtures

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING;

CANOPY PLANTATIONS; MIXED SPECIES PLANTATIOS; PLANTATION MIXTURES; SPECIES MIXTURES;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST INVENTORY; GROWTH MODELING; LIDAR; NURSE PLANT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SKEWNESS; TREE PLANTING;

PICEA SITCHENSIS; PLANTATIONS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TREE DIMENSIONS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GALLOWAY; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 34548431766     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.02.032     Document Type: Article

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