Development of a forest structural complexity index based on multispectral airborne remote sensing and topographic data

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 44-58

  Pasher, Jon ^a   King, Douglas J ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE IMAGERY; AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING; FIELD VARIABLES; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGERS; FOREST STRUCTURAL ATTRIBUTES; GEO-SPATIAL DATA; HIGH RESOLUTION; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTIPLE SCALE; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY INDEX; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA; TOTAL VARIANCE; TREE HEIGHT;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY; REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BIODIVERSITY; DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; HABITAT TYPE; INDEX METHOD; LEAF AREA INDEX; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESEARCH WORK; RESOLUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STAND STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; MAPS; QUALITY CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 78951478391     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X10-175     Document Type: Article

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