Airborne laser scanning for vegetation structure quantification in a south east Australian scrubby forest-woodland

Austral Ecology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-55

  Jenkins, Ross B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

ALS; Lidar; Multi temporal; Scrubby forest woodland; Vegetation metrics

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; EVERGREEN FOREST; FIELDWORK; FOLIAGE; FOREST COVER; LASER METHOD; LIDAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCRUB; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATE FOREST; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 80855166458     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02248.x     Document Type: Article

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