Canadian Forest Service Publications
Modelling vegetation understory cover using LiDAR metrics. 2019. Venier, L.A.; Swystun, T.; Mazerolle, M.J.; Kreutzweiser, D.P.; Wainio-Keizer, K.L.; McIlwrick, K.A.; Woods, M.E.; Wang, X. PLOS ONE 14(11): e0220096.
Year: 2019
Issued by: Great Lakes Forestry Centre
Catalog ID: 39979
Language: English
Availability: PDF (download)
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220096
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Plain Language Summary
Forest understory vegetation is an important feature of wildlife habitat among other things. Predicting and mapping understory is a critical need for forest management and conservation planning, but it has proved difficult. LiDAR has the potential to generate remotely sensed forest understory structure data, yet this potential has to be fully validated. Our objective was to examine the capacity of LiDAR point cloud data to predict forest understory cover.
