Understanding forest health with Remote sensing-Part II-A review of approaches and data models

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Lausch, Angela ^a,b   Erasmi, Stefan ^c   King, Douglas J ^d   Magdon, Paul ^c   Heurich, Marco ^e  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

Author keywords

In situ; LiDAR; Optical; Plant phenomics facilities; RADAR; Remote sensing (RS) approaches; RS models; Spectral trait variations (STV); Spectral traits (ST); Wireless sensor networks (WSN)

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

FOREST INVENTORY; LONG TERM MONITORING; MONITORING PROGRAMS; OPTICAL; RESOURCE LIMITATIONS; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; SPECTRAL TRAIT VARIATIONS (STV); SPECTRAL TRAITS (ST);

FORESTRY;

EID: 85013669716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9020129     Document Type: Review

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