Mapping Forest Canopy Height Across Large Areas by Upscaling ALS Estimates with Freely Available Satellite Data

Mapping Forest Canopy Height Across Large Areas by Upscaling ALS Estimates with Freely Available Satellite Data

Operational assessment of forest structure is an on-going challenge for land managers, particularly over large, remote or inaccessible areas. Here, we present an easily adopted method for generating a continuous map of canopy height at a 30 m resolution, demonstrated over 2.9 million hectares of hig...

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Main Authors: Phil Wilkes, Simon D. Jones, Lola Suarez, Andrew Mellor, William Woodgate, Mariela Soto-Berelov, Andrew Haywood, Andrew K. Skidmore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-09-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
canopy height
ALS
Landsat
open-source
large area assessment
random forest
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/7/9/12563

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