Investigating the agreement between global canopy height maps and airborne Lidar derived height estimates over Canada

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Bolton, Douglas K ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEMS; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; SMALL-FOOTPRINT LIDARS;

EXTRAPOLATION; FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR;

ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; RADAR;

EID: 84891103372     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m13-036     Document Type: Article

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