Modeling forest aboveground biomass and volume using airborne LiDAR metrics and forest inventory and analysis data in the Pacific Northwest

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 229-255

  Sheridan, Ryan D ^a   Popescu, Sorin C ^a   Gatziolis, Demetrios ^b   Morgan, Cristine L S ^a   Ku, Nian Wei ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Forestry; Inventory; LiDAR; Modeling; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

MODELS; MONITORING; OPTICAL RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; ALLOMETRIC EQUATIONS; FOREST INVENTORY AND ANALYSIS; INVENTORY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION; UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; INVENTORIES; MONITORING; USA;

EID: 84920767944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70100229     Document Type: Article

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