Testing the application of terrestrial laser scanning to measure forest canopy gap fraction

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3037-3056

  Ramirez, F Alberto ^a   Armitage, Richard P ^a   Danson, F Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forest canopy gap fraction; Intensity data; Terrestrial laser scanning

Indexed keywords

BIO-PHYSICAL VARIABLES; FOREST CANOPIES; HEMISPHERICAL PHOTOGRAPHS; HEMISPHERICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; INTENSITY DATA; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNERS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RESEARCH; SEEBECK EFFECT; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

BEAMS; FOREST CANOPY; LASERS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SCANNING; SEASONAL VARIATION; STEEL;

EID: 84880410740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5063037     Document Type: Article

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