Testing different methods of forest height and aboveground biomass estimations from ICESat/GLAS data in eucalyptus plantations in Brazil

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 290-299

  Baghdadi, Nicolas ^a   Le Maire, Guerric ^b   Fayad, Ibrahim ^a   Bailly, Jean Stephane ^c   Nouvellon, Yann ^a,d   Lemos, Cristiane ^e   Hakamada, Rodrigo ^e  

^a UMR TETIS   (France)

^b UMR ECO SOLS   (France)

^c UMR LISAH   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e International Paper do Brasil   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; forest height; ICESat GLAS; planted Eucalyptus forest

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EUCALYPTUS FORESTS; EUCALYPTUS PLANTATIONS; FOREST HEIGHT; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEMS; ICESAT/GLAS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT;

BIOMASS; ESTIMATION;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; HEIGHT; ICESAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANTATION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHRUB; WOODLAND;

BIOMASS; ESTIMATION; EUCALYPTUS; FORESTS;

BRAZIL;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 84891834949     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2261978     Document Type: Article

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