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A biomass estimate over the harvard forest using field measurements with radar and lidar data
2010
2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
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In this text we assess the accuracy of radar and/or lidar estimates of above ground biomass using eld measurements made in the Harvard forest in Massachusetts, USA. ...
This text analyzes these radar techniques using data collected from PALSAR and UAVSAR and assesses the ef ciency of the biomass estimates derived from them with the ground validation data collected over ...
doi:10.1109/igarss.2010.5651367
dblp:conf/igarss/AhmedSBCH10
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Using multi-source data from lidar, radar, imaging spectroscopy, and national forest inventories to simulate forest carbon fluxes
2017
International Journal of Remote Sensing
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This study assesses the use of multiple-source data from lidar, radar, imaging spectroscopy, and national forest inventories to derive forest structure and composition necessary to initialise the Ecosystem ...
ED2 was initialised using forest structure and composition derived from lidar and national forest inventories, radar and national forest inventories, lidar and imaging spectroscopy, and radar and imaging ...
Acknowledgements The authors thank Audrey Barker-Plotkin, Julian Hadley, David Forester, Paul Moorcroft, Steve Wofsy, Razi Ahmed, and the Harvard Forest LTER for their generosity in providing advice, ground-based ...
doi:10.1080/01431161.2017.1341666
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Uncertainty of Forest Biomass Estimates in North Temperate Forests Due to Allometry: Implications for Remote Sensing
2013
Remote Sensing
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We present an assessment of the quality of ground truth biomass estimates derived from three different sets of diameter-based allometric equations over the Harvard and Howland Forests to establish the ...
This article describes an effort to collect field data at the Harvard and Howland Forest sites, set in the temperate forests of the Northeastern United States in an attempt to establish ground truth forest ...
Study Goal and Objectives Algorithms to derive biomass estimates from radar and lidar sensors are currently typically calibrated using field biomass data collected over forest plots. ...
doi:10.3390/rs5063007
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The NASA AfriSAR campaign: Airborne SAR and lidar measurements of tropical forest structure and biomass in support of current and future space missions
2021
Remote Sensing of Environment
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and support of the AfriSAR airborne and field campaigns in Gabon. ...
Acknowledgements The AfriSAR campaign and data product development was supported by NASA's Earth Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate. ...
Indeed, while a breadth of field measurements was previously available in Central African forests, 90% of all plots were in high biomass forests (over 200 Mg/ha). ...
doi:10.1016/j.rse.2021.112533
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Modelling forest canopy height by integrating airborne LiDAR samples with satellite Radar and multispectral imagery
2018
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
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Here we evaluate the capability of existing satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with multispectral data to estimate forest canopy height over five study sites across two biomes in North America, namely ...
LiDAR measurements provide samples of forest structure that must be integrated with satellite imagery to predict and to map landscape scale variations of forest structure. ...
We thank NEON for providing the LiDAR data over the California study sites. We greatly appreciate the constructive comments of two anonymous reviewers which greatly improved the original manuscript. ...
doi:10.1016/j.jag.2017.11.017
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Measuring forest structure and biomass in New England forest stands using Echidna ground-based lidar
2011
Remote Sensing of Environment
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Comparing forest structural parameters retrieved using EVI data with extensive ground measurements, we found excellent agreement at the site level using five EVI scans (plots) per site (R 2 = 0.94-0.99 ...
This successful application of ground-based lidar technology opens the door to rapid and accurate measurement of biomass and timber volume in areal sampling scenarios and as a calibration and validation ...
of Miguel Roman, Mitchell Schull and Shihyan Lee in collecting field and EVI data. ...
doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.03.019
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The potential to characterize ecological data with terrestrial laser scanning in Harvard Forest, MA
2018
Interface Focus
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Field-measured aboveground biomass (AGB) in forested plots has been compared with estimates of forest biomass derived from L-band radar backscatter observed from the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL ...
Forest structure measurements Over the past decade, ground-based Echidna lidar scans have been used to estimate mean DBH values of trees, stem density, basal area and woody biomass [18] , and effective ...
doi:10.1098/rsfs.2017.0044
pmid:29503723
pmcid:PMC5829185
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Regional Carbon Predictions in a Temperate Forest Using Satellite Lidar
2017
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
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This study uses satellite waveform lidar from ICESat to estimate regional forest structure in central New England, where each lidar waveform estimates fine-scale forest heterogeneity. ...
In preparation for new lidar and hyperspectral satellites, linking satellite data and terrestrial biosphere models are crucial in improving estimates of carbon sequestration potential counteracting anthropogenic ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This paper was supported by the Sussex Research Development Fund, project # 4290. The authors thank Pedram Rowhani for his support at the onset of this project. ...
doi:10.1109/jstars.2017.2732058
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Impacts of Spatial Variability on Aboveground Biomass Estimation from L-Band Radar in a Temperate Forest
2013
Remote Sensing
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We examine the impact of plot size at different spatial resolutions, incidence angles, and polarizations on the forest biomass estimation using L-band polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar data acquired ...
UAVSAR backscatter was linked to the field estimates of aboveground biomass to develop parametric equations based on polarized returns to accurately map biomass over the entire radar image. ...
A special thanks for the crews that helped with the field collections from UCLA, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the University of Maryland, and the University of ...
doi:10.3390/rs5031001
fatcat:wdmujzsrvbakhbjmfx7xivut7y
Application of Physically-Based Slope Correction for Maximum Forest Canopy Height Estimation Using Waveform Lidar across Different Footprint Sizes and Locations: Tests on LVIS and GLAS
2014
Remote Sensing
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Comparisons against field measurements show that LVIS data can satisfactorily provide a proxy for maximum forest canopy heights (n = 705, RMSE = 4.99 m, and R 2 = 0.78), and the simple slope correction ...
Active light detection and ranging (lidar) sensors with discrete-return or waveform lidar have produced reliable measures of forest canopy height. ...
This work was partially supported by the NASA Headquarters under the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program-Grant "NNX13AP55H". ...
doi:10.3390/rs6076566
fatcat:ijlez47mcfa2nh3owhmztm2k6q
Transport of forest fire emissions from Alaska and the Yukon Territory to Nova Scotia during summer 2004
2007
Journal of Geophysical Research
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Smoke aerosols were first detected in the free troposphere by a Raman lidar and extended up to 8 km altitude. ...
The emissions were tracked back to Alaska and the Yukon Territory using aerosol optical depth measurements from the Aqua MODIS satellite instrument, and the transport was reconstructed using the GEOS-Chem ...
The vertical resolution of the lidar data was reduced to match that used by the FLEXPART, and the simulated data were averaged over the same time interval used in the observations. [26] As seen in Figure ...
doi:10.1029/2006jd007716
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Deciphering the Precision of Stereo IKONOS Canopy Height Models for US Forests with G-LiHT Airborne LiDAR
2014
Remote Sensing
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Few studies have evaluated the precision of IKONOS stereo data for measuring forest canopy height. ...
We found the following in three different forested regions of the US after excluding heterogeneous and disturbed forest samples: (1) G-LiHT DTMs were highly correlated with NED DTMs with R 2 > 0.98 and ...
RAdio Detection And Ranging (RADAR), Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR), and photogrammetric methods using stereo imagery, have all been used to measure forest structure and each approach has varying ...
doi:10.3390/rs6031762
fatcat:2inxhj4af5bl3orxpnedtthvfq
Synthesizing Disparate LiDAR and Satellite Datasets through Deep Learning to Generate Wall-to-Wall Forest Inventories of New England
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2019
bioRxiv
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We then apply our model to publicly available data over New England, generating maps of fourteen forest attributes at a 10 m resolution over 85 % of the region. ...
We compare this modeling approach to the standard modeling approach for making forest predictions from LiDAR data, and find that the CNN outperformed the standard approach by a large margin in many cases ...
Fox Research and Demonstration Forest for the use of their CFI field plot data. We thank David Orwig and Harvard Forest for the use of their Megaplot field inventory. ...
doi:10.1101/580514
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Mapping carbon storage in urban trees with multi-source remote sensing data: Relationships between biomass, land use, and demographics in Boston neighborhoods
2014
Science of the Total Environment
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We integrated remote sensing data (including LiDAR-based tree height estimates) and field-based observations to map canopy cover and aboveground tree carbon storage at~1 m spatial scale. ...
We developed a very high resolution map of urban tree biomass, assessed the scale sensitivities in biomass estimation, compared our results with lower resolution estimates, and explored the demographic ...
Data for this analysis was provided by the Urban Forest Coalition, DigitalGlobe Inc., and the Massachusetts Geographic Information System. ...
doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.08.070
pmid:25217746
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Archaeological Application of Airborne LiDAR with Object-Based Vegetation Classification and Visualization Techniques at the Lowland Maya Site of Ceibal, Guatemala
2017
Remote Sensing
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We then compared probable archaeological features identified in the LiDAR data with the archaeological map produced by Harvard University in the 1960s and conducted ground-truthing in sample areas. ...
We developed a classification of vegetation through object-based image analysis (OBIA), primarily using LiDAR-derived datasets, and evaluated various visualization techniques of LiDAR data. ...
The analysis of LiDAR data was carried out with the support of a Dumbarton Oaks fellowship and the University of Arizona Agnese Nelms Haury program. ...
doi:10.3390/rs9060563
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