Preliminary studies for a vegetation ladar/lidar space mission in france

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 4332-4335

  Durrieu, S ^a   Cherchali, S ^b   Costeraste, J ^b   Mondin, L ^b   Debise, H ^a   Chazette, P ^c   Dauzat, J ^d   Gastellu Etchegorry, J P ^e   Baghdadi, N ^a   Pelissier, R ^d  

^a AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d UMR AMAP   (France)

^e CESBIO   (France)

Author keywords

Biomass; Carbon stock; Forest; Fullwaveform lidar; Remote sensing; Spaceborne vegetation lidar

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894236400     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723793     Document Type: Conference Paper

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