TY  - JOUR
AU  - Anderson, J.E.
AU  - Ducey, M.J.
AU  - Fast, A.
AU  - Martin, M.E.
AU  - Lepine, L.
AU  - Smith, M.L.
AU  - Lee, T.D.
AU  - Dubayah, R.O.
AU  - Hofton, M.A.
AU  - Hyde, P.
AU  - Peterson, Birgit E.
AU  - Blair, J.B.
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Use of waveform lidar and hyperspectral sensors to assess selected spatial and structural patterns associated with recent and repeat disturbance and the abundance of sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) in a temperate mixed hardwood and conifer forest
T2  - citation identifier 053504
JO  - Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
VL  - 5
KW  - abundance
KW  - airborne
KW  - Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer
KW  - Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS)
KW  - area
KW  - AVIRIS
KW  - biomass
KW  - canopy
KW  - canopy cover difference
KW  - damage
KW  - disturbance
KW  - error
KW  - forest
KW  - forestland
KW  - forestry
KW  - geophysical image processing
KW  - hardwood
KW  - high resolution
KW  - hurricane
KW  - ice
KW  - imagery
KW  - imaging
KW  - inventory
KW  - journal articles
KW  - laser
KW  - lidar
KW  - marsh
KW  - measurement
KW  - metric
KW  - NASA
KW  - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
KW  - New Hampshire
KW  - North America
KW  - optical radar
KW  - patterns
KW  - remote sensing by laser beam
KW  - research
KW  - resolution
KW  - root mean square error
KW  - sensor
KW  - slope
KW  - spatial
KW  - spectrometer
KW  - stem
KW  - storm
KW  - tract
KW  - United States
KW  - USA
KW  - vegetation
KW  - vegetation mapping
KW  - wind
N2  - Waveform lidar imagery was acquired on September 26, 1999 over the Bartlett Experimental Forest (BEF) in New Hampshire (USA) using NASA's Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor (LVIS). This flight occurred 20 months after an ice storm damaged millions of hectares of forestland in northeastern North America. Lidar measurements of the amplitude and intensity of ground energy returns appeared to readily detect areas of moderate to severe ice storm damage associated with the worst damage. Southern through eastern aspects on side slopes were particularly susceptible to higher levels of damage, in large part overlapping tracts of forest that had suffered the highest levels of wind damage from the 1938 hurricane and containing the highest levels of sugar maple basal area and biomass. The levels of sugar maple abundance were determined through analysis of the 1997 Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) high resolution spectral imagery and inventory of USFS Northern Research Station field plots. We found a relationship between field measurements of stem volume losses and the LVIS metric of mean canopy height (r2 = 0.66; root mean square errors = 5.7 m]/ha, p < 0.0001) in areas that had been subjected to moderate-to-severe ice storm damage, accurately documenting the short-term outcome of a single disturbance event.
SN  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.3554639
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.3554639
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ID  - Anderson_etal2011
ER  -