Extracting structural vegetation components from small-footprint waveform lidar for biomass estimation in savanna ecosystems

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

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 480-490

  McGlinchy, Joseph ^a   Van Aardt, Jan A N ^b   Erasmus, Barend ^d   Asner, Gregory P ^c   Mathieu, Renaud ^e   Wessels, Konrad ^f,g   Knapp, David ^c   Kennedy Bowdoin, Ty ^c   Rhody, Harvey ^b   Kerekes, John P ^b   Ientilucci, Emmett J ^b   Wu, Jiaying ^g   Sarrazin, Diane ^h   Cawse Nicholson, Kerry ^b  

^a ESRI   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^g APPLE INC   (United States)

^h DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomass estimation; feature extraction; lidar; waveform

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894470845     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2274761     Document Type: Article

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