Modeling crown structure from LiDAR data with statistical distributions

Forest Science

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 359-364

  Cao, Quang V ^a   Dean, Thomas J ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy; Foliage distribution; Loblolly pine; Lognormal; Mixture; S B; Weibull

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; FOLIAGE DISTRIBUTION; LOBLOLLY PINE; LOG-NORMAL; S B; WEIBULL;

FORESTRY; MIXTURES; OPTICAL RADAR; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICS; MIXTURES; PINUS TAEDA; RADAR; TREES;

EID: 84862652422     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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