Airborne lidar-based estimates of tropical forest structure in complex terrain: Opportunities and trade-offs for REDD+

Carbon Balance and Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Leitold, Veronika ^a,b   Michael Keller, ^c,d   Douglas C Morton, ^b   Bruce D Cook, ^b   Yosio E Shimabukuro, ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Airborne lidar; Biomass estimation; Canopy height; Data thinning; Digital terrain model; Elevation accuracy; REDD+; Tropical montane forest

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPLEX TERRAIN; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GNSS; LIDAR; SATELLITE DATA; TROPICAL FOREST;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

EID: 84922780879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13021-015-0013-x     Document Type: Article

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