Allometric scaling and resource limitations model of tree heights: Part 2. Site based testing of the model

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 202-223

  Choi, Sungho ^a   Ni, Xiliang ^a,b   Shi, Yuli ^a,c   Ganguly, Sangram ^d   Zhang, Gong ^e   Duong, Hieu V ^f   Lefsky, Michael A ^f   Simard, Marc ^g   Saatchi, Sassan S ^g   Lee, Shihyan ^h   Ni Meister, Wenge ^h   Piao, Shilong ⁱ   Cao, Chunxiang ^b   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^d   Myneni, Ranga B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

ⁱ PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling law; GLAS; Model optimization; Resource limitation; Tree height

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRIC SCALING; GLAS; MODEL OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE LIMITATIONS; TREE HEIGHT;

LASERS; OPTIMIZATION;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; HEIGHT; LASERS; MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; TREES;

EID: 84873177452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5010202     Document Type: Article

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