Use of Orbital LIDAR in the Brazilian Cerrado Biome: Potential Applications and Data Availability

This paper focuses on the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) data availability over the 2 million km2 Cerrado, the Brazilian central savanna biome and one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. Overall, about 2.5 million laser shots, distributed...

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Main Authors: Laerte Guimarães Ferreira, Timothy J. Urban, Amy Neuenschawander, Fernando Moreira de Araújo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2011-10-01
Series:Remote Sensing
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/3/10/2187/