Evaluating uncertainty in mapping forest carbon with airborne LiDAR

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3770-3774

  Mascaro, Joseph ^a,b   Detto, Matteo ^b   Asner, Gregory P ^a   Muller Landau, Helene C ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; Crown radius; Light detection and ranging; Spatial autocorrelation; Tree allometry; Tropical forest carbon stocks

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; CROWN RADIUS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; TREE ALLOMETRY; TROPICAL FOREST;

CARBON; ERRORS; OPTICAL RADAR;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AIRBORNE SENSING; ALLOMETRY; AUTOCORRELATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIDAR; PREDICTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CORRELATION; CROWNS; ERRORS; LIGHT; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; RADAR; RADIUS;

EID: 81355147450     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.07.019     Document Type: Article

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