Retrieving crown leaf area index from an individual tree using ground-based lidar data

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 320-332

  Moorthy, Inian ^a   Miller, John R ^b   Hu, Baoxin ^b   Chen, Jing ^c   Li, Qingmou ^d  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ASTROPHYSICS; FORESTRY; GALLIUM ALLOYS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASERS; MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOGRAPHY; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RANGE FINDING; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR NETWORKS; SPACE OPTICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

3D DATUM; AIRBORNE; CANOPY RADIATIVE TRANSFERS; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; DENSITY PROFILES; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS; FOLIAGE DISTRIBUTIONS; GAP FRACTIONS; HISTOGRAM THRESHOLDING; INDIVIDUAL TREES; INTELLIGENT; INVERSION ALGORITHMS; LASER RANGING; LEAF AREA INDEXES; LIDAR DATUM; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; POINT CLOUDS; STRUCTURAL INFORMATIONS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNERS; WOODY MATERIALS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA PROCESSING; FOLIAR ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; LASERS; LEAVES; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RADAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN;

EID: 55049132577     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m08-027     Document Type: Article

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