Retrieval of gap fraction and effective plant area index from phase-shift terrestrial laser scans

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2601-2627

  Pueschel, Pyare ^a   Newnham, Glenn ^b   Hill, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forestry; LAI; Laser scanning; LiDAR; Phase Shift

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS;

LAI; LASER SCANNING; MEASUREMENT SPEED; NOISE COMPRESSION; PARAMETER COMBINATION; SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANS;

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84896963848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6032601     Document Type: Article

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