Estimation of wetland vegetation height and leaf area index using airborne laser scanning data

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 550-559

  Luo, Shezhou ^a,b   Wang, Cheng ^a   Pan, Feifei ^c   Xi, Xiaohuan ^a   Li, Guicai ^d   Nie, Sheng ^a   Xia, Shaobo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b BEIJING CITY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Canopy height model; Laser penetration index; Leaf area index; LiDAR; Vegetation height; Wetland vegetation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURVEYING; WETLANDS;

CANOPY HEIGHT MODELS; LEAF AREA INDEX; PENETRATION INDEX; VEGETATION HEIGHT; WETLAND VEGETATION;

VEGETATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GPS; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; LASER; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIDAR; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WETLAND;

EID: 84907801778     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.09.024     Document Type: Article

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