Using LiDAR Data Analysis to Estimate Changes in Insolation Under Large-Scale Riparian Deforestation

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 939-948

  Greenberg, Jonathan Asher ^a   Hestir, Erin L ^b,c   Riano, David ^b   Scheer, George J ^b   Ustin, Susan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Levees; LiDAR; Remote sensing; Riparian deforestation; Riparian shade; Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta; Solar irradiation model

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS; DATA REQUIREMENTS; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; EXPLANATORY POWER; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LARGE REGIONS; LIDAR DATA; MECHANISTIC MODELS; PARAMETERIZING; RIPARIAN CORRIDORS; RIPARIAN SHADE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIVER DELTAS; SOLAR IRRADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION MODEL; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; STREAM CHANNELS; TERRAIN TOPOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER TEMPERATURES;

DEFORESTATION; ESTIMATION; LEVEES; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SUN; TEMPERATURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VEGETATION;

INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; INSOLATION; IRRADIANCE; LEVEE; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RIPARIAN FOREST; SHADING; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STREAM CHANNEL; TERRAIN; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CALIFORNIA; SACRAMENTO DELTA; SAN JOAQUIN DELTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867097638     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2012.00664.x     Document Type: Article

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