Estimation of solar direct beam transmittance of conifer canopies from airborne LiDAR

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 136, Issue , 2013, Pages 402-415

  Musselman, Keith N ^a,b   Margulis, Steven A ^a   Molotch, Noah P ^b,c  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest canopy; LiDAR; Ray tracing; Solar direct beam radiation; Voxel model

Indexed keywords

DIRECT BEAMS; FOREST CANOPIES; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SOIL WATER AVAILABILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; TRANSMITTANCE MODELS; VOXEL MODELS;

BEER; FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SOIL MOISTURE;

ESTIMATION;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DIURNAL VARIATION; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IRRADIANCE; LIDAR; RAY TRACING; SOIL WATER; SOLAR RADIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSMITTANCE;

BEVERAGES; FOREST CANOPY; MELTING; MOISTURE; RADAR; SNOW; SOIL;

EID: 84879546553     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.05.021     Document Type: Article

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