Taking stock of circumboreal forest carbon with ground measurements, airborne and spaceborne LiDAR

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 137, Issue , 2013, Pages 274-287

  Neigh, Christopher S R ^a   Nelson, Ross F ^a   Ranson, K Jon ^a   Margolis, Hank A ^b   Montesano, Paul M ^a,c,d   Sun, Guoqing ^a,d   Kharuk, Viacheslav ^e   Næsset, Erik ^f   Wulder, Michael A ^g   Andersen, Hans Erik ^h  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^f NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^g LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Boreal forest; Carbon; LiDAR

Indexed keywords

ABOVE-GROUND CARBONS; BOREAL FORESTS; FOREST CARBONS; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; SPACE-BORNE LIDAR; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CHANGES;

BIOMASS; CARBON; OPTICAL RADAR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIOMASS; BIOME; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LIDAR; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BIOMASS; CARBON; FORESTRY; RADAR;

CANADA; EURASIA;

EID: 84881118078     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.06.019     Document Type: Article

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