Detecting tropical forest biomass dynamics from repeated airborne lidar measurements

Biogeosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 5421-5438

  Meyer, V ^a   Saatchi, S S ^a   Chave, J ^b   Dalling, J W ^c   Bohlman, S ^d   Fricker, G A ^e   Robinson, C ^e   Neumann, M ^a   Hubbell, S ^e,f  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; TROPICAL FOREST;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; PANAMA [PANAMA (NTN)];

EID: 84882385218     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-5421-2013     Document Type: Article

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