Forest canopy height mapping over China using GLAS and MODIS data

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 96-105

  Yang, Ting ^a,b   Wang, Cheng ^a   Li, GuiCai ^c   Luo, SheZhou ^a   Xi, XiaoHuan ^a   Gao, Shuai ^a   Zeng, HongCheng ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

canopy height model; GLAS; terrain index; waveform decomposition

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ECOSYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIO ALTIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; CANOPY HEIGHT MODELS; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEMS; GLAS; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING DATA; TERRAIN INDEX; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM CHARACTERISTICS;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALTIMETER; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLAS; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; LIDAR; MAPPING; MODIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84939153682     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-014-4905-5     Document Type: Article

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