Modeling lidar returns from vegetation canopies

Guoqing Sun; K. Jon Ranson

doi:10.1117/12.319556

19 August 1998 Modeling lidar returns from vegetation canopies

Guoqing Sun, K. Jon Ranson

Proceedings Volume 3504, Optical Remote Sensing for Industry and Environmental Monitoring; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.319556
Event: Asia-Pacific Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Environment, and Space, 1998, Beijing, China

Abstract

The Vegetation Canopy Lidar (VCL) is scheduled for launch in 2000 as the first mission of NASA's new Earth System Science Pathfinder Project. It will provide unique dataset on canopy geometry and sub-canopy topography, which will lead to improved understanding of important structures and processes of Earth environment. To understand the relation between canopy structure and the Lidar waveform, a 3-d model is implemented in this study. Various forest stands were used to parameterize this vegetation lidar waveform model including (1) simulated stands at various ages from forest growth model, (2) forest stand with detailed field measurements, and (3) simulated forest stands with different spatial tree distributions. The simulated lidar waveforms for various stands were presented and the results were discussed in this paper.

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Guoqing Sun and K. Jon Ranson "Modeling lidar returns from vegetation canopies", Proc. SPIE 3504, Optical Remote Sensing for Industry and Environmental Monitoring, (19 August 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.319556

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