NASA goddard's LiDAR, hyperspectral and thermal (G-LiHT) airborne imager

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4045-4066

  Cook, Bruce D ^a   Corp, Lawrence A ^b   Nelson, Ross F ^a   Middleton, Elizabeth M ^a   Morton, Douglas C ^a   McCorkel, Joel T ^a   Masek, Jeffrey G ^a   Ranson, Kenneth J ^a   Ly, Vuong ^a   Montesano, Paul M ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne scanning LiDAR; Data fusion; Ecosystem structure; Forest disturbance; Forest health; Imaging spectroscopy; Primary production; Remote sensing; Sensor fusion; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FOREST DISTURBANCES; FOREST HEALTH; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SENSOR FUSION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BIODIVERSITY; DATA FUSION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; NASA; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84884758150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5084045     Document Type: Article

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