Airborne lidar estimation of aboveground forest biomass in the absence of field inventory

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Ferraz, António ^a   Saatchi, Sassan ^a   Mallet, Clément ^b   Jacquemoud, Stéphane ^c   Gonçalves, Gil ^d   Silva, Carlos Alberto ^e   Soares, Paula ^f   Tomé, Margarida ^f   Pereira, Luisa ^g  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^d INESC COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

3D point cloud clustering; Airborne laser scanning; Biomass; Carbon; Crown delineation; Individual tree extraction; Lidar; Multi layered forest structure; Vegetation cover

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; FORESTRY; NASA; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

3D POINT CLOUD; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; CROWN DELINEATION; FOREST STRUCTURE; INDIVIDUAL TREE; VEGETATION COVER;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84983766423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8080653     Document Type: Article

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