Rapid assessments of amazon forest structure and biomass using small unmanned aerial systems

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Messinger, Max ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^b   Silman, Miles ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest carbon monitoring; Light detection and ranging (LiDAR); SFM LiDAR fusion; Structure from motion; SUAS; Unmanned aircraft

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; ANTENNAS; CARBON; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

FOREST CARBONS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION; SUAS; UNMANNED AIRCRAFTS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84983772252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8080615     Document Type: Article

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