Terrestrial laser scanning for vegetation sampling

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 20304-20319

  Richardson, Jeffrey J ^a   Monika Moskal, L ^a   Bakker, Jonathan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Density; Fire; Forest; Grazing; Patchiness; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

FIRES; REMOTE SENSING;

FOREST; GRAZING; PATCHINESS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; VEGETATION SAMPLING;

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY);

EID: 84908551607     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s141120304     Document Type: Article

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