Mapping Forest Height in Alaska Using GLAS, Landsat Composites, and Airborne LiDAR

Vegetation structure, including forest canopy height, is an important input variable to fire behavior modeling systems for simulating wildfire behavior. As such, forest canopy height is one of a nationwide suite of products generated by the LANDFIRE program. In the past, LANDFIRE has relied on a com...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Birgit Peterson, Kurtis J. Nelson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-12-01
Series:Remote Sensing
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/12/12409