Enriching ALS-derived area-based estimates of volume through tree-level downscaling

Forests

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2608-2630

  Tompalski, Piotr ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   White, Joanne C ^b   Wulder, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Downscaling; Individual tree distributions; Lidar; Remote sensing; Tree lists; Volume; Weibull

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FORECASTING; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; DOWN-SCALING; INDIVIDUAL TREE; TREE LISTS; VOLUME; WEIBULL;

FORESTRY;

DOWNSCALING; LIDAR; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REMOTE SENSING; STAND STRUCTURE; TEMPERATE FOREST; TREE; WEIBULL THEORY;

LASER PAPERS; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VOLUME;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 84940542645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f6082608     Document Type: Article

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