Interpretation and topographic compensation of conifer canopy self-shadowing

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3820-3832

  Kane, Van R ^a   Gillespie, Alan R ^a   McGaughey, Robert ^a   Lutz, James A ^a   Ceder, Kevin ^a   Franklin, Jerry F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy complexity; Canopy self shadowing; Canopy structure; Forest canopies; Rumple; Spectral mixture analysis; Topographic compensation; Topographic correction; Topographic normalization

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

CANOPY CLOSURES; CANOPY COMPLEXITY; CANOPY SELF-SHADOWING; CANOPY STRUCTURE; CONIFER CANOPY; CONIFER STANDS; DEVELOPMENT STAGES; FIRST ORDERS; FLAT TERRAINS; FOREST CANOPIES; FOREST STANDS; GEOMETRIC COMPLEXITY; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; OLD-GROWTH; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES; RUMPLE; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLES; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE AREA; TOPOGRAPHIC COMPENSATION; TOPOGRAPHIC CORRECTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TOPOGRAPHIC NORMALIZATION;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST CANOPY; LIDAR; PIXEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; ZENITH ANGLE;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 50849112026     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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