Mapping above- and below-ground biomass components in subtropical forests using small-footprint LiDAR

Forests

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1356-1373

  Cao, Lin ^a,b   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Innes, John ^a   Dai, Jinsong ^b   She, Guanghui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass components; Carbon; Small footprint LiDAR; Southeastern China; Subtropical forests

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; MAPPING; OPTICAL RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BIOMASS COMPONENTS; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MULTI-REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMALL-FOOTPRINT LIDARS; SOUTHEASTERN CHINA; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUBTROPICAL FORESTS;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOTPRINT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LIDAR; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL VARIATION; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION MAPPING;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CHINA; FORESTS; MAPPING; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84902506807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f5061356     Document Type: Article

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