Estimating and mapping forest structural diversity using airborne laser scanning data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 170, Issue , 2015, Pages 133-142

  Mura, Matteo ^a   McRoberts, Ronald E ^b   Chirici, Gherardo ^c   Marchetti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Forest structural diversity; GREG estimator; Model assisted estimator

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCANNING; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; COMPOSITIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONSERVATION STRATEGIES; GREG ESTIMATOR; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

MAPPING;

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST DYNAMICS; MAP; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ITALY; MOLISE;

EID: 84943423654     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.09.016     Document Type: Article

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