Understory trees in airborne LiDAR data - Selective mapping due to transmission losses and echo-triggering mechanisms

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 119, Issue , 2012, Pages 92-104

  Korpela, Ilkka ^a   Hovi, Aarne ^a   Morsdorf, Felix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Canopy gap; Discrete return; Forest inventory; Silviculture; Small footprint

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAPS; DISCRETE-RETURN; FOREST INVENTORY; SILVICULTURE; SMALL-FOOTPRINT;

BIODIVERSITY; OPTICAL RADAR; SENSORS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BIODIVERSITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONIFEROUS TREE; CORRELATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA TRANSMISSION; FIELDWORK; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST INVENTORY; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LIDAR; OVERSTORY; PROBABILITY; RADIOMETRIC SURVEY; SATELLITE DATA; SILVICULTURE; UNDERSTORY;

BIODIVERSITY; DATA TRANSMISSION; FORESTRY; PROBABILITY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; SILVICULTURE;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84855774232     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.12.011     Document Type: Article

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