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

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

1664

Lastpage

1667

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351207

Filename

6351207