A review of the role of active remote sensing and data fusion for characterizing forest in wildlife habitat models;Revisión de la teledetección activa y la fusión de datos para la caracterización de bosques en modelos especie-hábitat

Revista de Teledeteccion

Volumn 2016, Issue 45, 2016, Pages 1-14

  Vogeler, J C ^a,b   Cohen, W B ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest; Lidar; Predictive maps; Radar; Wildlife habitat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959375689     PISSN: 11330953     EISSN: 19888740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4995/raet.2016.3981     Document Type: Article

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