Mapping forest above-ground biomass and its changes from LVIS waveform data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 6561-6564

  Huang, Wenli ^a   Sun, Guoqing ^a   Dubayah, Ralph ^a   Zhang, Zhiyu ^b   Ni, Wenjian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Forest Above ground Biomass; LVIS; Scale

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLES; CHANGE DETECTION; DEVELOPED MODEL; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FIELD DATA; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FOREST BIOMASS; FOREST DISTURBANCES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LVIS; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PREDICTION MODEL; REGIONAL SCALE; SCALE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STUDY SITES; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM DATA;

FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84873208445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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