Retrieving forest canopy extinction coefficient from terrestrial and airborne lidar

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 236, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-21

  Ma, Lixia ^a,b   Zheng, Guang ^b   Eitel, Jan U H ^c   Magney, Troy S ^d   Moskal, L Monika ^e  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction coefficient; Foliage azimuthal angle; Foliage inclination angle; Lidar data

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; AZIMUTH; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; FOLIAGE; FOREST CANOPY; LASER METHOD; LIDAR; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; SATELLITE DATA;

CONIFERALES;

EID: 85009811978     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.01.004     Document Type: Article

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