Estimation of forest aboveground biomass by integrating GLAS and ETM data

Beijing Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)/Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 703-710

  Dong, Lixin ^a,b,c   Wu, Bingfang ^c   Tang, Shihao ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Above ground biomass; ETM; Forest canopy height; GLAS; LIDAR

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961196733     PISSN: 04798023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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