Estimating Above-Ground Carbon Biomass in a Newly Restored Coastal Plain Wetland Using Remote Sensing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Riegel, Joseph B ^a   Bernhardt, Emily ^a   Swenson, Jennifer ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COASTAL PLAIN; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; TREE; VEGETATION; WETLAND;

BIOMASS; CARBON; NORTH CAROLINA; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TELEMETRY; UNITED STATES; WETLANDS;

EID: 84879511608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068251     Document Type: Article

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