Large-scale retrieval of leaf area index and vertical foliage profile from the spaceborne waveform lidar (GLAS/ICESat)

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 154, Issue , 2014, Pages 8-18

  Tang, Hao ^a   Dubayah, Ralph ^a   Brolly, Matthew ^b   Ganguly, Sangram ^c,d   Zhang, Gong ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^c BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

GLAS; LAI; Landsat; Lidar; Vertical foliage profile

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEMS; GLAS; LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; LANDSAT; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING DATA; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBSERVATIONS; VERTICAL FOLIAGE; LAI; LEAF AREA INDEX; SPACE-BORNE; WAVEFORM LIDARS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALTIMETER; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOLIAGE; ICESAT; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIDAR; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84906736069     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.08.007     Document Type: Article

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