Application of semi-automated filter to improve waveform lidar sub-canopy elevation model

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1494-1518

  Fricker, Geoffrey A ^a   Saatchi, Sassan S ^b   Meyer, Victoria ^b   Gillespie, Thomas W ^a   Sheng, Yongwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barro Colorado Island; Discrete return lidar; Large footprint lidar; Laser vegetation imaging sensor; Lidar; Moist tropical rainforest; Point filtering; Sub canopy topography; Terrain slope

Indexed keywords

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; DISCRETE-RETURN LIDAR; IMAGING SENSORS; LARGE FOOTPRINT LIDAR; TERRAIN SLOPE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

FORESTRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VEGETATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

FOREST CANOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; PANAMA; PLANTS; RADAR; SENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 84864965478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4061494     Document Type: Article

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