Title :
Quantifying spatial and temporal dynamics of tropical forest structure using high resolution airborne lidar
Author :
Neumann, Maxim ; Saatchi, Sassan S. ; Clark, David B.
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab. (JPL), California Inst. of Technol. (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper analyzes the spatial and temporal dynamics of forest structure in tropical wet forest at the La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. Three small-footprint lidar datasets from 1997, 2006, and 2009 are used over old-growth and secondary forests at 1-meter spatial resolution. The results quantify the spatial variability, the vertical forest structure profiles and the temporal variability, demonstrating the determination of the forest succession stages from remote sensing data.
Keywords :
remote sensing by laser beam; vegetation; 1-meter spatial resolution; AD 1997; AD 2006; AD 2009; Costa Rica; La Selva Biological Station; forest succession stages; high resolution airborne lidar; old-growth forest; remote sensing data; secondary forest; small-footprint lidar datasets; temporal variability; tropical forest structure; tropical wet forest; vertical forest structure profiles; Biomass; Correlation; Laser radar; Remote sensing; Spatial resolution; Vegetation;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351207
