DocumentCode
3351874
Title
Effects of forest disturbances on forest structural parameters retrieval from lidar waveform data
Author
Ranson, K. Jon ; Sun, G.
Author_Institution
Biospheric Sci. Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
fYear
2010
fDate
25-30 July 2010
Firstpage
4370
Lastpage
4373
Abstract
The effect of forest disturbance on the lidar waveform and the forest biomass estimation was demonstrated by model simulation. The results show that the correlation between stand biomass and the lidar waveform indices changes when the stand spatial structure changes due to disturbances rather than the natural succession. This has to be considered in developing algorithms for regional or global mapping of biomass from lidar waveform data.
Keywords
forestry; optical radar; remote sensing by laser beam; vegetation; vegetation mapping; forest biomass estimation; forest disturbances; forest structural parameters retrieval; global biomass mapping; lidar waveform data; lidar waveform indices changes; natural succession; regional biomass mapping; stand biomass; stand spatial structure changes; biomass; disturbance; forest; lidar waveform;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location
Honolulu, HI
ISSN
2153-6996
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-9565-8
Electronic_ISBN
2153-6996
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5652562
Filename
5652562
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