Assessing forest windthrow damage using single-date, post-event airborne laser scanning data

Forestry

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 27-37

  Chirici, Gherardo ^a,b   Bottalico, Francesca ^a   Giannetti, Francesca ^a   Del Perugia, Barbara ^a   Travaglini, Davide ^a   Nocentini, Susanna ^a,b   Kutchartt, Erico ^c   Marchi, Enrico ^a   Foderi, Cristiano ^a   Fioravanti, Marco ^a   Fattorini, Lorenzo ^d   Bottai, Lorenzo ^e   McRoberts, Ronald E ^f   Næsset, Erik ^g   Corona, Piermaria ^h   Gozzini, Bernardo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Accademia Italiana di Scienze Forestali   (Italy)

^c MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^e LaMMA Consortium   (Italy)

^f USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^g NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^h ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE EFFECT; DAMAGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY MODELING; LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM; LASER METHOD; SAMPLING; STAND STRUCTURE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; URBAN AREA; WINDTHROW; WOOD;

ITALY; TUSCANY;

EID: 85041181051     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpx029     Document Type: Article

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