Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 177-190

  Jucker, Tommaso ^a   Caspersen, John ^b,c   Chave, Jérôme ^d   Antin, Cécile ^e,f   Barbier, Nicolas ^e   Bongers, Frans ^g   Dalponte, Michele ^h   van Ewijk, Karin Y ⁱ   Forrester, David I ^j   Haeni, Matthias ^c   Higgins, Steven I ^k   Holdaway, Robert J ^l   Iida, Yoshiko ^m   Lorimer, Craig ⁿ   Marshall, Peter L ^o   Momo, Stéphane ^e,p   Moncrieff, Glenn R ^q   Ploton, Pierre ^e   Poorter, Lourens ^g   Rahman, Kassim Abd ^r   Schlund, Michael ^s   Sonké, Bonaventure ^p   Sterck, Frank J ^g   Trugman, Anna T ^t   Usoltsev, Vladimir A ^u   Vanderwel, Mark C ^v   Waldner, Peter ^c   Wedeux, Beatrice M M ^a   Wirth, Christian ^w,x   Wöll, Hannsjörg ^y   Woods, Murray ^z   Xiang, Wenhua ^aa   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^c   Coomes, David A ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^f FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

^g WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

ⁱ QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^l LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^m FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^p UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^q SOUTH AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATION NETWORK   (South Africa)

^r FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^s FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^t PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u URAL STATE FOREST ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^v UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^w UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^x GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^y Conservation and Natural Resources Management ^*  (Austria)

^z ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^aa CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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Author keywords

aboveground biomass; airborne laser scanning; carbon mapping; crown architecture; height diameter allometry; stem diameter distributions

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALLOMETRY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DIAMETER; FOREST CANOPY; HEIGHT; MONITORING SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING;

CARBON;

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; FOREST; REMOTE SENSING; TREE;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; FORESTS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 84979021499     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13388     Document Type: Article

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