Surface roughness analysis of a conifer forest canopy with airborne and terrestrial laser scanning techniques

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 192-203

  Weligepolage, K ^a,b   Gieskea, A S M ^a,b   Su, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Irrigation ^*  (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Conifer forest; Momentum roughness; Terrestrial laser scanning

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRBORNE SENSING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST CANOPY; LASER METHOD; MORPHOMETRY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84861693124     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2011.08.014     Document Type: Article

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