Multivariate statistical analysis of asynchronous lidar data and vegetation models in a neotropical forest

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 154, Issue , 2014, Pages 368-377

  Sullivan, Franklin B ^a   Palace, Michael ^a   Ducey, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lidar; Multivariate analysis; Tropical forest change; Vegetation profile

Indexed keywords

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FORESTRY; METADATA; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RADAR; STATISTICAL TESTS; VEGETATION;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; ALLOMETRIC EQUATIONS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; PERMUTATION PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION PROFILES;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

ALLOMETRY; CORRELATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST CANOPY; LIDAR; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOTROPICAL REGION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EQUATIONS; MODELS; PLANTS; RADAR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COSTA RICA; LA SELVA BIOLOGICAL STATION; LIMON;

EID: 84908698893     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.04.027     Document Type: Article

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