Fusion of airborne LiDAR and satellite multispectral data for the estimation of timber volume in the Southern Alps

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2486-2498

  Tonolli, Sergio ^a   Dalponte, Michele ^b   Neteler, Markus ^b   Rodeghiero, Mirco ^b   Vescovo, Loris ^b   Gianelle, Damiano ^b  

^a Dipartimento Risorse Forestali e Montane   (Italy)

^b RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forest; LiDAR; Mountain region; Multispectral; Stem volume estimation

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LIDAR; ALTITUDE RANGE; COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY; DATA SOURCE; DEVELOPED MODEL; DOMINANT SPECIES; FOREST; FORESTED AREA; MOUNTAIN REGIONS; MULTI SENSOR; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTI-SPECTRAL DATA; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SATELLITE MULTISPECTRAL DATA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STEM VOLUME; TIMBER VOLUME; TREE SPECIES;

ESTIMATION; LANDFORMS; PLANT EXTRACTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ALTITUDE; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS TREE; DOMINANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVERGREEN TREE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST DYNAMICS; IRS (SATELLITE); LIDAR; LISS; MODEL VALIDATION; MORPHOLOGY; MOUNTAIN REGION; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SEA LEVEL; SLOPE; STEM; TIMBER HARVESTING;

ALPS; ITALY; TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE; TRENTO;

EID: 79960716421     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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