Lidar calibration and validation for geometric-optical modeling with Landsat imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 124, Issue , 2012, Pages 384-393

  Chen, Gang ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^a   White, Joanne C ^a   Hilker, Thomas ^b   Coops, Nicholas C ^c  

^a PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Landsat; Large area; Li Strahler geometric optical model; Lidar plots; Tree height

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ERRORS; BOREAL FORESTS; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; CANADIAN NATIONALS; ENDMEMBERS; ESTIMATION ERRORS; FOREST INVENTORY; FORESTED AREA; FRACTION IMAGES; HEIGHT ESTIMATE; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; LANDSAT IMAGERY; LANDSAT IMAGES; LARGE-AREA; LIDAR DATA; MODEL INVERSION; MODELING TECHNIQUE; NORTHERN FORESTS; REMOTE AREAS; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; STUDY AREAS; TREE HEIGHT; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

CARBON; ESTIMATION; GEOMETRY; MAPPING; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; CALIBRATION; CARBON; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST SOIL; GEOMETRY; LANDSAT; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL METHOD; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CANADA; FORESTS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVENTORIES; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING;

CANADA;

EID: 84862277751     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.05.026     Document Type: Article

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