Estimating vascular plant species richness on Horn Island, Mississippi using small-footprint airborne LIDAR

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Lucas, Kelly L ^a   Raber, George T ^b   Carter, Gregory A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b The University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

barrier islands; biodiversity; LIDAR; plant species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

BARRIER ISLANDS; LIDAR (LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING); PLANT SPECIES RICHNESS; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; VASCULAR PLANT SPECIES; VEGETATION HEIGHT; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WOODLAND HABITAT;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 80155123427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3501119     Document Type: Article

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