Creating vegetation density profiles for a diverse range of ecological habitats using terrestrial laser scanning

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 263-272

  Ashcroft, Michael B ^a,b   Gollan, John R ^a,c   Ramp, Daniel ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canopy cover; Habitat heterogeneity; Leaf area index; LIDAR; TLS; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897801733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12157     Document Type: Article

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