Comparison of precision of biomass estimates in regional field sample surveys and airborne LiDAR-assisted surveys in Hedmark County, Norway

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 130, Issue , 2013, Pages 108-120

  Næsset, Erik ^a   Gobakken, Terje ^a   Bollandsås, Ole Martin ^a   Gregoire, Timothy G ^b   Nelson, Ross ^c   Ståhl, Göran ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Airborne LiDAR; Biomass estimation; Forest monitoring; Model assisted estimation; Probability sampling

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LIDAR; AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA; AREA OF INTEREST; AUXILIARY DATA; BIOMASS ESTIMATION; CLUSTER SURVEY; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FIELD SURVEYS; FOREST MONITORING; LIDAR (LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING); LIDAR DATA; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY SAMPLING; SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING; STANDARD ERRORS; SURVEY DESIGN; TREE BIOMASS; TWO STAGE SAMPLINGS; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES; UNEQUAL LENGTH; VARIANCE ESTIMATORS;

BIOMASS; DESIGN; FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR; SURVEYS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

ESTIMATION;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AIRBORNE SENSING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ACQUISITION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FIELD SURVEY; FOREST INVENTORY; LIDAR; PRECISION; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TREE;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; NORWAY; PROBABILITY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING;

HEDMARK; NORWAY;

EID: 84871777463     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.11.010     Document Type: Article

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