Canopy Height Model (CHM) Derived from a TanDEM-X InSAR DSM and an Airborne Lidar DTM in Boreal Forest

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 381-397

  Sadeghi, Yaser ^a   St Onge, Benoit ^a   Leblon, Brigitte ^b   Simard, Marc ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy surface height (CSH); dominant height (DH); lidar CHM; TanDEM X canopy height model (CHM)

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

CANOPY HEIGHT MODELS; COARSER RESOLUTION; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; HEIGHT ESTIMATE; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INTERFEROMETRIC HEIGHT; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOREAL FOREST; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; LIDAR; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TANDEM-X;

EID: 84954498720     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2512230     Document Type: Article

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