Bidirectional texture function of high resolution optical images of tropical forest: An approach using LiDAR hillshade simulations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 167-179

  Barbier, Nicolas ^a,b   Proisy, Christophe ^a   Véga, Cédric ^c   Sabatier, Daniel ^a   Couteron, Pierre ^a  

^a UMR AMAP   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UMR TETIS   (France)

Author keywords

Bidirectional texture function; Canopy structure; Fourier transform; French Guiana; Paracou station; Small footprint LiDAR; Sun view angles; Texture; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

BIDIRECTIONAL TEXTURE FUNCTIONS; CANOPY STRUCTURE; FOURIER; FRENCH GUIANA; PARACOU STATION; SMALL-FOOTPRINT LIDARS; TROPICAL FOREST;

DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; OPTICAL RADAR; SUN; TEXTURES; TROPICS;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CARBON EMISSION; DECISION MAKING; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOURIER TRANSFORM; IMAGING METHOD; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL METHOD; QUICKBIRD; RESOLUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; TEXTURE; TOPOGRAPHY; TROPICAL FOREST;

DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; FOREST CANOPY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; OPTICS; PARAMETERS; RADAR; TEXTURE;

FRENCH GUIANA; PARACOU;

EID: 77958103385     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.08.015     Document Type: Article

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