Name
Title | ||
|---|---|---|
Connecting the dots between laser waveforms and herbaceous biomass for assessment of land degradation using small-footprint waveform LiDAR data |
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
Measurement and management of vegetation biomass accumulation in ecosystems typically involves extensive field data collection, which can be expensive and time consuming, while leaving the user with relatively crude inputs to intricate biomass models. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) remote sensing, which provides extensive height measurements of terrain and vegetation, has become an effective alternative to characterize vegetation structure. In this paper, we report on ongoing efforts at developing signal processing approaches to model herbaceous biomass using a new generation of airborne laser scanners, namely full-waveform LiDAR systems. Structural and statistic-based feature metrics are directly derived from LiDAR waveforms at the pixel level and related to plot-level field data. Initial results reveal a definite correlation between the LiDAR waveform and herbaceous biomass. Ongoing research focuses on the links between fractional cover estimated from imaging spectroscopy and woody biomass. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2009 | 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418078 | Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009 |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
geophysical signal processing,optical radar,remote sensing by laser beam,remote sensing by radar,vegetation mapping,Light detection and ranging remote sensing,South Africa,airborne laser scanners,full-waveform LiDAR systems,height measurements,herbaceous biomass,imaging spectroscopy,land degradation,laser waveforms,signal processing,small-footprint waveform lidar data,vegetation biomass,woody biomass,Biomass,LiDAR,signal processing,waveform | Biomass,Vegetation,Computer science,Waveform,Remote sensing,Terrain,Lidar,Footprint,Pixel,Imaging spectroscopy | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | ISBN |
2 | 2153-6996 | 978-1-4244-3395-7 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
4 | 0.93 | 1 |
Authors | ||
9 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jiaying Wu | 1 | 40 | 6.00 |
| jan van aardt | 2 | 33 | 10.55 |
| Gregory Asner | 3 | 19 | 4.25 |
| Renaud Mathieu | 4 | 125 | 17.29 |
| Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin | 5 | 7 | 2.20 |
| David Knapp | 6 | 262 | 66.95 |
| Konrad J. Wessels | 7 | 98 | 20.52 |
| Barend Erasmus | 8 | 5 | 1.99 |
| Izak Smit | 9 | 5 | 2.97 |