Airborne laser scanner (LiDAR) proxies for understory light conditions

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 134, Issue , 2013, Pages 152-161

  Alexander, Cici ^a   Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold ^a   Bøcher, Peder Klith ^a   Arge, Lars ^a   Svenning, Jens Christian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Airborne LASER SCANNING; Angular canopy closure; Ellenberg indicator values for light; LiDAR; Vertical canopy cover

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNERS; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AZIMUTH AND ZENITH ANGLES; BIOLOGICAL COMPONENTS; CANOPY CLOSURES; CANOPY COVER; INDICATOR VALUES; SPHERICAL COORDINATES;

ESTIMATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

FORESTRY;

AZIMUTH; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LASER METHOD; LIDAR; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTECTED AREA; SCANNER; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; ZENITH ANGLE;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; FORESTRY; LASERS; LIGHT; RADAR; SCANNING;

DENMARK;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84875847058     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.02.028     Document Type: Article

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