Monitoring downed coarse woody debris through appearance of canopy gaps in urban boreal forests with bitemporal ALS data

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 835-843

  Tanhuanpaa T ^a   Kankare, V ^a   Vastaranta, M ^a   Saarinen, N ^a   Holopainen, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Airborne LiDAR; Change detection; CWD; Deadwood mapping

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CANOPY GAP; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; CONIFEROUS TREE; DATA ACQUISITION; DEAD WOOD; DECIDUOUS TREE; DETECTION METHOD; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LIDAR; MAPPING METHOD; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84951780488     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2015.08.005     Document Type: Article

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