Quantifying forest above ground carbon content using LiDAR remote sensing

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 368-380

  Patenaude, G ^a,b   Hill, R A ^b   Milne, R ^b   Gaveau, D L A ^c   Briggs, B B J ^a   Dawson, T P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Wildlife Conservation Society Bogor   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Carbon; Forest; LiDAR

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND CARBON CONTENT (AGCC); CANOPY HEIGHT;

CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

REMOTE SENSING;

CARBON SINK; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; LIDAR; REMOTE SENSING;

CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST CANOPY; LASERS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH;

CAMBRIDGESHIRE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; MONKS WOOD NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 5044238992     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.07.016     Document Type: Article

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