Quantifying biomass consumption and carbon release from the California Rim fire by integrating airborne LiDAR and Landsat OLI data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 340-353

  Garcia, Mariano ^a,b   Saatchi, Sassan ^a   Casas, Angeles ^c   Koltunov, Alexander ^c   Ustin, Susan ^c   Ramirez, Carlos ^d   Garcia Gutierrez, Jorge ^e   Balzter, Heiko ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

biomass consumption; carbon emissions; data integration; Landsat OLI; lidar; megafires

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AIRBORNE SURVEY; CARBON EMISSION; LANDSAT; LIDAR; NDVI; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85013421242     PISSN: 21698953     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JG003315     Document Type: Article

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