Novel forest structure metrics from airborne LiDAR data for improved snow interception estimation

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 208, Issue , 2015, Pages 40-49

  Moeser, D ^a,b   Morsdorf, F ^c   Jonas, T ^a  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aerial LiDAR; Canopy closure; Canopy metrics; Forest snow modeling; LAI; Snow interception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928660306     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.04.013     Document Type: Article

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