The shelf-life of airborne laser scanning data for enhancing forest inventory inferences

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 206, Issue , 2018, Pages 254-259

  McRoberts, Ronald E ^a   Chen, Qi ^b   Gormanson, Dale D ^a   Walters, Brian F ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Inference; Model assisted estimator; Stratified estimator

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REFORESTATION; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AUXILIARY INFORMATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FOREST INVENTORY; INFERENCE; LASER SCANNING DATA; MODEL-ASSISTED ESTIMATOR; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; SHELF LIFE; STRATIFIED ESTIMATOR;

DATA ACQUISITION;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AIRBORNE SENSING; COMMODITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ACQUISITION; EQUIPMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE LASER RANGING;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85039709969     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.12.017     Document Type: Article

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