Design and evaluation of multispectral LiDAR for the recovery of arboreal parameters

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4942-4954

  Wallace, Andrew M ^a   McCarthy, Aongus ^a   Nichol, Caroline J ^b   Ren, Ximing ^a   Morak, Simone ^b   Martinez Ramirez, Daniel ^a   Woodhouse, Iain H ^b   Buller, Gerald S ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Leaf area profile; leaf physiology; light detection and ranging (LiDAR); multispectral; Parameter inversion

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; OPTICAL RADAR; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOVERY; SPACE PLATFORMS;

LEAF AREA; LEAF PHYSIOLOGIES; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MULTI-SPECTRAL; PARAMETER INVERSION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ARBOREAL SPECIES; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST CANOPY; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIDAR; NDVI; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84896345013     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2285942     Document Type: Article

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