Spatially explicit characterization of boreal forest gap dynamics using multi-temporal lidar data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2326-2340

  Vepakomma, Udayalakshmi ^a   St Onge, Benoit ^a   Kneeshaw, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forests; Forest dynamics; Gap; Lidar

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

BOREAL FOREST GAP DYNAMICS; CANOPY GAPS; FOREST DYNAMICS; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT CHARACTERIZATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

BOREAL FOREST; CANOPY GAP; DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GAP DYNAMICS; LIDAR; REGENERATION; SATELLITE DATA;

FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR;

EID: 41249095779     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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