Evaluating the impact of leaf-on and leaf-off airborne laserscanning data on the estimation of forest inventory attributes with the area-based approach

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1498-1513

  White, Joanne C ^a   Arnett, John T T R ^b   Wulder, Michael A ^a   Tompalski, Piotr ^b   Coops, Nicholas C ^b  

^a PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Area based approach; Forest inventory; Leaf off; Lidar

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MIXING; OPTICAL RADAR;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AREA-BASED; FOREST INVENTORY; LEAF-OFF; PINUS CONTORTA VAR. LATIFOLIA; QUADRATIC MEAN DIAMETER; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SENSOR; CONIFEROUS TREE; DATA ACQUISITION; DECIDUOUS TREE; FOREST INVENTORY; LEAF; LIDAR; POPULATION DENSITY;

ALBERTA; CANADA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 84946398634     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2015-0192     Document Type: Article

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