Quantifying soil carbon loss and uncertainty from a peatland wildfire using multi-temporal LiDAR

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 170, Issue , 2015, Pages 306-316

  Reddy, A D ^a   Hawbaker, T J ^b   Wurster, F ^c   Zhu, Z ^a   Ward, S ^d   Newcomb, D ^d   Murray, R ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^d US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire; LiDAR; Peatlands; Soil carbon; Vertical accuracy

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FIRES; OPTICAL RADAR; PEAT; SOILS; WETLANDS;

INDONESIAN PEAT; MULTI-TEMPORAL; PEAT LAND; SOIL CARBON; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE ELEVATIONS; VERTICAL ACCURACY; WILDLIFE REFUGE;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

LAND COVER; LIDAR; PEATLAND; REMOTE SENSING; RESERVOIR; SOIL CARBON; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WILDFIRE;

GREAT DISMAL SWAMP; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84943598084     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.09.017     Document Type: Review

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