Predicting southeastern forest canopy heights and fire fuel models using GLAS data

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 915-922

  Ashworth, Andrew ^a,b   Evans, David L ^b   Cooke, William H ^c   Londo, Andrew ^c   Collins, Curtis ^b,d   Neuenschwander, Amy ^e  

^a Box 9681 ^*  (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Larson and McGowin Inc   (United States)

^e The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; FIRES; FUELS; RADIO ALTIMETERS;

ELEVATION SATELLITES; FOREST CANOPIES; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEMS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; OVERALL ACCURACIES; PREDICTIVE VARIABLES; WAVEFORM LIDARS;

FORESTRY;

ALTIMETER; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA INTERPRETATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST FIRE; FUELWOOD; HEIGHT; ICESAT; LASER METHOD; LIDAR; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; FUELS; HEIGHT; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; RADAR; RADIO; SATELLITES;

MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958091127     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.76.8.915     Document Type: Review

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