Applying terrestrial lidar for evaluation and calibration of airborne lidar-derived shrub biomass estimates in Arctic tundra

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 175-184

  Greaves, Heather E ^a   Vierling, Lee A ^a   Eitel, Jan U H ^a   Boelman, Natalie T ^b,c   Magney, Troy S ^d   Prager, Case M ^c   Griffin, Kevin L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CALIBRATION; FORECASTING; HARVESTING; LANDFORMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SEEBECK EFFECT; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; BENCHMARK MEASUREMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING; LEAVE-ONE-OUT CROSS VALIDATIONS; PREDICTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DEVIATIONS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BENCHMARKING; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; LASER METHOD; LIDAR; PHYTOMASS; SAMPLING; SHRUB; TUNDRA;

EID: 84994667381     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2016.1246770     Document Type: Article

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