Modeling and mapping agroforestry aboveground biomass in the Brazilian Amazon using airborne lidar data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Chen, Qi ^a,b   Lu, Dengsheng ^a,c   Keller, Michael ^d,e   dos Santos, Maiza Nara ^d   Bolfe, Edson Luis ^d   Feng, Yunyun ^a   Wang, Changwei ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^e USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; Agroforestry; Allometry; Lidar; Mixed effects models; Wood density

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957886745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8010021     Document Type: Article

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