Estimating aboveground carbon using airborne LiDAR in Cambodian tropical seasonal forests for REDD+ implementation

Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 484-492

  Ota, Tetsuji ^a   Kajisa, Tsuyoshi ^b   Mizoue, Nobuya ^a   Yoshida, Shigejiro ^a   Takao, Gen ^c   Hirata, Yasumasa ^c   Furuya, Naoyuki ^c   Sano, Takio ^d   Ponce Hernandez, Raul ^e   Ahmed, Oumer S ^e   Sokh, Heng ^f   Ma, Vuthy ^f   Ito, Eriko ^c   Toriyama, Jumpei ^c   Monda, Yukako ^c   Saito, Hideki ^c   Kiyono, Yoshiyuki ^c   Chann, Sophal ^f   Ket, Nang ^f  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d ASIA AIR SURVEY CO LTD   (Japan)

^e TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Forestry Administration   (Cambodia)

Author keywords

Aboveground carbon density; Airborne LiDAR; Pulse density; Tropical seasonal forest

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPICS;

ABOVE-GROUND CARBONS; ACCURATE ESTIMATION; AIRBORNE LIDAR; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MEASURED RESIDUALS; PULSE DENSITY; REGRESSION MODEL; TROPICAL SEASONAL FOREST;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SURVEY; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON FLUX; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREST CANOPY; LIDAR; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

CAMBODIA;

EID: 84947037497     PISSN: 13416979     EISSN: 16107403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10310-015-0504-3     Document Type: Article

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