Retrieval of savanna vegetation canopy height from ICESat-GLAS spaceborne LiDAR with terrain correction

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1439-1443

  Khalefa, Ehsan ^a   Smit, Izak P J ^b   Nickless, Alecia ^c   Archibald, Sally ^c   Comber, Alexis ^a   Balzter, Heiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Canopy height; Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS); Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat); Kruger National Park; light detection and ranging (LiDAR); savanna; terrain correction

Indexed keywords

CANOPY HEIGHTS; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEMS; LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; NATIONAL PARKS; SAVANNA; TERRAIN CORRECTION;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; CLOUDS; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIO ALTIMETERS;

VEGETATION;

CORRELATION; FOREST CANOPY; GEOLOGY; PLANTS; RADAR; SATELLITES;

EID: 84886600449     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2259793     Document Type: Article

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