Can biodiversity study benefit from information on the vertical structure of forests? Utility of LiDAR remote sensing

Current Science

Volumn 102, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1181-

  Dees, Matthias ^a   Straub, Christoph ^a   Koch, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Forest gaps; Lidar forest monitoring; Stand height; Vertical structure

Indexed keywords

CONIFERALES;

EID: 84864518205     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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