Effects of terrain on large footprint lidar waveform of forests

Forest Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 464-468

  Pang, Yong ^a   Li, Zeng Yuan ^a   Sun, Guoqing ^b   Lefsky, Michael ^c   Che, Xue Jian ^a   Chen, Er Xue ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

ICEsat GLAS; Large footprint lidar; Terrain; Waveform from forests

Indexed keywords

FOOTPRINT; FORESTRY; LIDAR; SLOPE ANGLE; TERRAIN; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548682987     PISSN: 10011498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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