Understanding the effects of als pulse density for metric retrieval across diverse forest types

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 625-635

  Wilkes, Phil ^a,b,c   Jones, Simon D ^a,b   Suarez, Lola ^a,b   Haywood, Andrew ^a,b,d   Woodgate, William ^a,b   Soto Berelov, Mariela ^a   Mellor, Andrew ^e,f   Skidmore, Andrew K ^c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Andrew Haywood is with the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^e DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEGETATION;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; CANOPY HEIGHTS; CANOPY STRUCTURE; GROUND SURFACES; UNDER-SAMPLING; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

FORESTRY;

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; RAINFOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODLAND;

FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; REMOTE SENSING;

GEORGIA; SAVANNAH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84938566150     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.81.8.625     Document Type: Article

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