Fusion of lidar and multispectral data to quantify salt marsh carbon stocks

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 154, Issue , 2014, Pages 345-357

  Kulawardhana, Ranjani W ^a   Popescu, Sorin C ^a   Feagin, Rusty A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biamass; Carbon; Lidar; Multispectral data; Salt marsh

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; DATA FUSION; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

BIAMASS; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; DISCRETE-RETURN LIDAR; HERBACEOUS VEGETATION; MULTI-SPECTRAL DATA; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING; SALT MARSHES;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; HERB; IMAGERY; LIDAR; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; SALTMARSH;

CARBON; DATA; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84908672891     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.10.036     Document Type: Article

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