Analysis of waveform lidar data using shape-based metrics

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 106-110

  Muss, Jordan D ^a   Aguilar Amuchastegui, Naikoa ^b   Mladenoff, David J ^c   Henebry, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest biomass; Light detection and ranging (lidar); Waveform shape

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF WAVEFORM; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION; FOREST BIOMASS; FOREST STRUCTURE; LASER VEGETATION IMAGING SENSORS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; RADIUS OF GYRATION; WAVEFORM SHAPE;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; BIOMASS; FORESTRY;

OPTICAL RADAR;

BIOMASS; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; RADAR; SENSORS;

EID: 84887621380     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2194472     Document Type: Article

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