Potential of an ultraviolet, medium-footprint lidar prototype for retrieving forest structure

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 66, Issue 6 SUPPL., 2011, Pages

  Allouis, Tristan ^a   Durrieu, Sylvie ^a   Chazette, Patrick ^b   Bailly, Jean Stéphane ^a   Cuesta, Juan ^c   Véga, Cédric ^a   Flamant, Pierre ^c   Couteron, Pierre ^d  

^a UMR TETIS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Forest structure; Laser attenuation; Semi variogram; Signal processing; Ultra light aircraft

Indexed keywords

CROWN HEIGHT; DATA SETS; DATA SUBSETS; ESTIMATION ERRORS; FLIGHT LINES; FOREST HEIGHT; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST PARAMETERS; FOREST STRUCTURE; HEIGHT MEASUREMENT; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; LIDAR SIGNALS; MARITIME PINE STANDS; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; REGIONAL SCALE; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SEMIVARIOGRAMS; SIGNAL ATTENUATION; TREE SPACING; ULTRA-LIGHT; VEGETATION REMOTE SENSING; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; YOUNG STANDS;

OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRAVIOLET LASERS; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

AIRCRAFT; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CORRECTION; DATA SET; LIDAR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VARIOGRAM; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

AIR CRAFT; ATTENUATION; LASERS; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; PLANTS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SIGNALS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AQUITAINE; FRANCE; LANDES;

PINUS PINASTER;

EID: 84355166665     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2011.08.007     Document Type: Article

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