Optimizing the Remote Detection of Tropical Rainforest Structure with Airborne Lidar: Leaf Area Profile Sensitivity to Pulse Density and Spatial Sampling

Optimizing the Remote Detection of Tropical Rainforest Structure with Airborne Lidar: Leaf Area Profile Sensitivity to Pulse Density and Spatial Sampling

Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) has been considered as a primary source to model the structure and function of a forest canopy through the indicators leaf area index (LAI) and vertical canopy profiles of leaf area density (LAD). However, little is known about the effects of the laser pulse density and...

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Main Authors: Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida, Scott C. Stark, Gang Shao, Juliana Schietti, Bruce Walker Nelson, Carlos Alberto Silva, Eric Bastos Gorgens, Ruben Valbuena, Daniel de Almeida Papa, Pedro Henrique Santin Brancalion
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-01-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
LAI
LAD
leaf area index
canopy
Beer–Lambert law
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/1/92

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