Connecting the dots between laser waveforms and herbaceous biomass for assessment of land degradation using small-footprint waveform lidar data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wu, J ^a   Van Aardt, J A N ^a   Asner, G P ^b   Mathieu, R ^c   Kennedy Bowdoin, T ^b   Knapp, D ^b   Wessels, K ^c   Erasmus, B F N ^d   Smit, I ^e  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e KRUGER NATIONAL PARK   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biomass; LiDAR; Signal processing; Waveform

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNERS; BIOMASS MODELS; FIELD DATA; FIELD DATA COLLECTION; FRACTIONAL COVER; HEIGHT MEASUREMENT; HERBACEOUS BIOMASS; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; LAND DEGRADATION; LASER WAVEFORMS; LIDAR DATA; LIDAR SIGNALS; LIDAR SYSTEMS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; PIXEL LEVEL; STATISTIC-BASED; VEGETATION BIOMASS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WAVE FORMS; WOODY BIOMASS;

GEOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VEGETATION;

BIOMASS;

EID: 77951120155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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