Scaling wood volume estimates from inventory plots to landscapes with airborne LiDAR in temperate deciduous forest

Carbon Balance and Management

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Levick, Shaun R ^a   Hessenmöller, Dominik ^b   Schulze, E Detlef ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b State Forest Service   (Germany)

Author keywords

Broad leafed; Carbon; Forest; Inventory; LiDAR; Temperate; Wood volume

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971574730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13021-016-0048-7     Document Type: Article

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