Estimating leaf area index of maize using airborne full-waveform lidar data

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 111-120

  Nie, Sheng ^a,b   Wang, Cheng ^a   Dong, Pinliang ^c   Xi, Xiaohuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEGETATION;

BEER LAMBERT LAW; DISCRETE RETURNS; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; EXCHANGE PROCESS; INPUT PARAMETER; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; WAVEFORM PROCESSING;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIDAR; MAIZE;

CHINA; HEBEI; HUAILAI;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84949797593     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2015.1111536     Document Type: Article

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