Linking canopy images to forest structural parameters: Potential of a modeling framework

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 305-311

  Barbier, Nicolas ^a   Couteron, Pierre ^a   Gastelly Etchegorry, Jean Philippe ^b   Proisy, Christophe ^a  

^a UMR AMAP   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

3D forest model; Broad leaved tropical forests; Radiative transfer model; Remote sensing; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BUDGET; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STAND STRUCTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 84862008339     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13595-011-0116-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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