Characterising forest structure using combinations of airborne laser scanning data, RapidEye satellite imagery and environmental variables

Forestry

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 159-169

  Dash, Jonathan P ^a   Watt, Michael S ^a   Bhandari, Santosh ^b   Watt, Pete ^b  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

^b Indufor Asia Pacific Ltd   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LASER METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PREDICTION; RAPIDEYE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STAND STRUCTURE;

EID: 84964746674     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpv048     Document Type: Article

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