Revisiting a universal airborne light detection and ranging approach for tropical forest carbon mapping: Scaling-up from tree to stand to landscape

Oecologia

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 439-443

  Vincent, Grégoire ^a   Sabatier, Daniel ^a   Rutishauser, Ervan ^b  

^a UMR AMAP   (France)

^b CarboForExpert (carboforexpertch)   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Above ground biomass; Allometry; Carbon mapping; Forest canopy height; Regional scale

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AIRBORNE SENSING; ALLOMETRY; CARBON; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE; LIDAR; MAPPING METHOD; THRESHOLD; TROPICAL FOREST;

CARBON;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; WOOD;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WOOD;

EID: 84901241504     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-2913-y     Document Type: Article

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