The structural and radiative consistency of three-dimensional tree reconstructions from terrestrial lidar

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1067-1081

  Côté, Jean François ^a   Widlowski, Jean Luc ^b   Fournier, Richard A ^a   Verstraete, Michel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D tree structure; Architectural tree model; Canopy reflectance model; Radiation transfer simulations; Terrestrial LiDAR

Indexed keywords

3D TREE STRUCTURE; ARCHITECTURAL TREE MODEL; CANOPY REFLECTANCE MODEL; RADIATION TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; TERRESTRIAL LIDAR;

ARCHITECTURE; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL); REFLECTION; RESTORATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CANOPY REFLECTANCE; FOLIAGE; LIDAR; MODEL VALIDATION; PLANT ARCHITECTURE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RECONSTRUCTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 63649103808     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.01.017     Document Type: Article

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