Effects of LiDAR point density and landscape context on estimates of urban forest biomass

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 101, Issue , 2015, Pages 310-322

  Singh, Kunwar K ^a   Chen, Gang ^b   McCarter, James B ^a   Meentemeyer, Ross K ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Canopy stratification; Development density; Large area assessment; LiDAR; Multiple linear regression; Point density

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA HANDLING; FORESTRY; LINEAR REGRESSION; REMOTE SENSING;

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; CHARLOTTE , NORTH CAROLINA; DEVELOPMENT DENSITY; LARGE-AREA ASSESSMENT; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; POINT DENSITY; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ESTIMATION METHOD; LANDSCAPE; LIDAR; SATELLITE DATA; URBAN FORESTRY; URBANIZATION;

BIOMASS; FOREST CANOPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHARLOTTE; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84922208373     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.12.021     Document Type: Article

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