Monitoring spring phenology with high temporal resolution terrestrial LiDAR measurements

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 203, Issue , 2015, Pages 158-168

  Calders, Kim ^a   Schenkels, Tom ^a   Bartholomeus, Harm ^a   Armston, John ^b,c   Verbesselt, Jan ^a   Herold, Martin ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

PAI; Phenology; Terrestrial LiDAR; Vegetation structure; Vertical plant profiles

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DECIDUOUS FOREST; LIDAR; MODIS; MONITORING; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING (SEASON); TIME SERIES; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84921447018     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.01.009     Document Type: Article

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