Retrieving Directional Gap Fraction, Extinction Coefficient, and Effective Leaf Area Index by Incorporating Scan Angle Information from Discrete Aerial Lidar Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 577-590

  Zheng, Guang ^a   Ma, Lixia ^a,b   Eitel, Jan U H ^c   He, Wei ^b   Magney, Troy S ^d   Moskal, Ludmila Monika ^e   Li, Mingshi ^f  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aerial laser scanning (ALS); directional gap fraction (DGF); effective leaf area index (LAIe); scan angle

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT PATHS; OPTICAL RADAR;

EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; HEMISPHERICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; OCCLUSION EFFECT; PHYSICALLY BASED; POINT CLOUD DATA; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER;

FORESTRY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST COVER; LEAF AREA INDEX; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84991087194     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2611651     Document Type: Article

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