Updating stand-level forest inventories using airborne laser scanning and Landsat time series data

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 66, Issue , 2018, Pages 174-183

  Bolton, Douglas K ^a   White, Joanne C ^b   Wulder, Michael A ^b   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Hermosilla, Txomin ^a   Yuan, Xiaoping ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest attributes; Imputation; Lidar; Multispectral imagery; Remote sensing; Time series

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; LANDSAT; LIDAR; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; KAMLOOPS;

EID: 85049444484     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2017.11.016     Document Type: Article

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