Using airborne LiDAR and QuickBird data for modelling urban tree carbon storage and its distribution-a case study of Berlin

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 10636-10655

  Schreyer, Johannes ^a   Tigges, Jan ^b   Lakes, Tobia ^a   Churkina, Galina ^a,c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon storage; Climate change; LiDAR; Mitigation; QuickBird; Sequestration; Spatial patterns; Urban trees; Urban vegetation

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON CAPTURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL STORAGE; OPTICAL RADAR; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VEGETATION;

CARBON STORAGE; MITIGATION; QUICKBIRD; SEQUESTRATION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; URBAN TREES; URBAN VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

CARBON; CHELATION; PLANTS; STORAGE;

EID: 84912117668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61110636     Document Type: Article

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