Integrating LiDAR-derived tree height and Landsat satellite reflectance to estimate forest regrowth in a tropical agricultural landscape

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 190-203

  Caughlin, T Trevor ^a   Rifai, Sami W ^a   Graves, Sarah J ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^b   Bohlman, Stephanie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous change detection; forest landscape restoration; Landsat LiDAR integration; reforestation; spectral mixture analysis; tropical secondary forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018666297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20563485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rse2.33     Document Type: Article

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