Multi-model estimation of understorey shrub, herb and moss cover in temperate forest stands by laser scanner data

Forestry

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 496-514

  Latifi, Hooman ^a   Hill, Steven ^a   Schumann, Bastian ^a   Heurich, Marco ^b,c   Dech, Stefan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST COVER; HABITAT TYPE; HERB; LASER METHOD; LIDAR; MOSS; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGENERATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATE FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

ANIMALIA; BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 85037168538     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpw066     Document Type: Article

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