Significant effect of topographic normalization of airborne LiDAR data on the retrieval of plant area index profile in mountainous forests

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 132, Issue , 2017, Pages 77-87

  Liu, Jing ^a,b   Skidmore, Andrew K ^a   Heurich, Marco ^c   Wang, Tiejun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airborne LiDAR; Canopy layer; Entropy; Plant area index profile; Topographic normalization

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENTROPY; OPTICAL RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY;

AIRBORNE LIDAR; AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA; CANOPY LAYER; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; NORMALIZATION ALGORITHMS; PLANT AREAS; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS; TOPOGRAPHIC NORMALIZATION;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ALGORITHM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CANOPY; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIDAR; MONTANE FOREST; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHY;

GERMANY;

EID: 85028926792     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2017.08.005     Document Type: Article

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