On the interest of penetration depth, canopy area and volume metrics to improve Lidar-based models of forest parameters

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 175, Issue , 2016, Pages 32-42

  Véga, Cédric ^a   Renaud, Jean Pierre ^b   Durrieu, Sylvie ^c   Bouvier, Marc ^c  

^a IGN Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière   (France)

^b Office National des Forêts   (France)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Aboveground volume; Area and volume metrics; Area based approach; Basal area; Forest inventory; Lidar; Penetration depth

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RADAR; PENETRATION DEPTH (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY);

ABOVEGROUND VOLUME; AREA AND VOLUME METRICS; AREA-BASED; BASAL AREA; FOREST INVENTORY;

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; DEPTH DETERMINATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST INVENTORY; HETEROGENEITY; LIDAR; PARAMETERIZATION; VOLUME;

EID: 84953269796     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.12.039     Document Type: Article

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