Relative efficiency of ALS and InSAR for biomass estimation in a Tanzanian rainforest

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 9865-9885

  Hansen, Endre Hofstad ^a   Gobakken, Terje ^a   Solberg, Svein ^b   Kangas, Annika ^a   Ene, Liviu ^a   Mauya, Ernest ^a   Næsset, Erik ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; ALS; LiDAR; Relative efficiency; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; ALS; AUXILIARY INFORMATION; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; RADIO DETECTION AND RANGING; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BIOMASS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYS;

EID: 84939432841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70809865     Document Type: Article

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