Quantifying land use effects on forested riparian buffer vegetation structure using LiDAR data http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/ES14-00204.1

Ecosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Wasser, Leah ^a   Chasmer, Laura ^b   Day, Rick ^c   Taylor, Alan ^c  

^a NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Canopy conditions; Disturbance; Edge effects; Forest inventory; LiDAR; Remote sensing; Riparian forests; Vegetation structure; Wide area mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922064199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES14-00204.1     Document Type: Article

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