Title :
Effects of forest disturbances on forest structural parameters retrieval from lidar waveform data
Author :
Ranson, K. Jon ; Sun, G.
Author_Institution :
Biospheric Sci. Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Abstract :
The effect of forest disturbance on the lidar waveform and the forest biomass estimation was demonstrated by model simulation. The results show that the correlation between stand biomass and the lidar waveform indices changes when the stand spatial structure changes due to disturbances rather than the natural succession. This has to be considered in developing algorithms for regional or global mapping of biomass from lidar waveform data.
Keywords :
forestry; optical radar; remote sensing by laser beam; vegetation; vegetation mapping; forest biomass estimation; forest disturbances; forest structural parameters retrieval; global biomass mapping; lidar waveform data; lidar waveform indices changes; natural succession; regional biomass mapping; stand biomass; stand spatial structure changes; biomass; disturbance; forest; lidar waveform;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9565-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5652562
