Aboveground-biomass estimation of a complex tropical forest in India using lidar

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 10607-10625

  Véga, Cédric ^a,b   Vepakomma, Udayalakshmi ^c   Morel, Jules ^b   Bader, Jean Luc ^b   Rajashekar, Gopalakrishnan ^a   Jha, Chandra Shekhar ^a   Ferêt, Jérôme ^b   Proisy, Christophe ^d   Pélissier, Raphaël ^b,d   Dadhwal, Vinay Kumar ^a  

^a Laboratoire de l'Inventaire Forestier Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière ^*  (India)

^b FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

^c FPINNOVATIONS   (Canada)

^d UMR AMAP   (France)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; Canopy grain; Lidar; Texture; Tropical forests; Volume profile

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; TEXTURES; TROPICS;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SIGNAL PENETRATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES; TROPICAL FOREST; VOLUME PROFILE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

BIOMASS; FORESTS; MODELS; RADAR; TEXTURE;

EID: 84939423999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70810607     Document Type: Article

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