Large off-nadir scan angle of airborne LiDAR can severely affect the estimates of forest structure metrics

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 136, Issue , 2018, Pages 13-25

  Liu, Jing ^a,b   Skidmore, Andrew K ^a,c   Jones, Simon ^b   Wang, Tiejun ^a   Heurich, Marco ^d,e   Zhu, Xi ^a   Shi, Yifang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airborne LiDAR; Gap fraction; Off nadir scan angle; Vertical gap fraction profile

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RADAR;

AIRBORNE LIDAR; FOREST TYPE; GAP FRACTION; GAP PROFILES; LEAF AREA INDEX; OFF-NADIR SCAN ANGLE; SCAN ANGLE; STRUCTURAL METRICS; VERTICAL GAP FRACTION PROFILE;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AIRBORNE SENSING; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIELDWORK; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIDAR; MODEL VALIDATION; NADIR; RESEARCH WORK; SATELLITE DATA; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 85038002919     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2017.12.004     Document Type: Article

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