CANOPY HEIGHT MODELS TO MONITOR AREAS UNDER DEGRADATION IN MIXED OMBROPHILE

ABSTRACT This research was aimed at providing a study of digital elevation models from Airborne Laser Scanner (ALS) data. The goal was to improve the forest monitoring, or more specifically, arboreal canopy monitoring, which contains the most elevated vegetation of the forest. It is also described a...

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Main Authors: Mauro José Alixandrini Junior, Josmar Oliveira Valadares, Carlos Loch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade de Investigações Florestais
Series:Revista Árvore
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-67622016000500959&lng=en&tlng=en