The use of airborne lidar to assess avian species diversity, density, and occurrence in a pine/aspen forest

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2064-2073

  Clawges, Rick ^a   Vierling, Kerri ^b   Vierling, Lee ^b   Rowell, Eric ^c  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian; Birds; Diversity; Habitat; Lidar; Remote sensing; Spectral; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

AIRBORNE LIDARS; FIELD-BASED MEASUREMENTS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

FORESTRY;

AVIFAUNA; HABITAT TYPE; IKONOS; LIDAR; MIXED FOREST; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; POPULATION DENSITY; SATELLITE DATA; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BIRDS; FORESTRY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

BLACK HILLS NATIONAL FOREST; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CONIFEROPHYTA; JUNCO HYEMALIS; VIREO GILVUS;

EID: 41249099702     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.08.023     Document Type: Article

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