Using airborne laser scanning data for detecting canopy gaps and their understory type in mature boreal forest

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 825-835

  Vehmas, Mikko ^a   Packalén, Petteri ^a   Maltamo, Matti ^a   Eerikäinen, Kalle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Coarse woody debris; Lidar; Managed forest; Remote sensing; Seminatural forest

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CANOPY GAP; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; DATA SET; DEAD WOOD; DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT TYPE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INSECT; MATURATION; METEOROLOGY; MORTALITY; REGENERATION; REMOTE SENSING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 80051486110     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13595-011-0079-x     Document Type: Article

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