Spaceborne LiDAR Systems: Evolution, Capabilities, and Challenges [PDF]
SensorsIn the realm of earth observation and space exploration, LiDAR technology offers humanity insights into the dynamics of our planet and beyond. This paper reviews spaceborne LiDAR instruments with attention to their evolution, capabilities, and ...
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Requirements for a global lidar system: spaceborne lidar with wall-to-wall coverage [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Lidar is the optimum technology for measuring bare-Earth elevation beneath, and the structure of, vegetation. Consequently, airborne laser scanning (ALS) is widely employed for use in a range of applications.
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Comparison of cloud statistics from spaceborne lidar systems [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2008 The distribution of clouds in a vertical column is assessed on the global scale through analysis of lidar measurements obtained from three spaceborne lidar systems: LITE (Lidar In-space Technology Experiment, NASA), GLAS (Geoscience Laser Altimeter ...
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Regional Scale Rain-Forest Height Mapping Using Regression-Kriging of Spaceborne and Airborne LiDAR Data: Application on French Guiana [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2016 LiDAR data has been successfully used to estimate forest parameters such as canopy heights and biomass. Major limitation of LiDAR systems (airborne and spaceborne) arises from their limited spatial coverage.
Ibrahim Fayad +8 more
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Environmental drivers of spatial variation in tropical forest canopy height: Insights from NASA's GEDI spaceborne LiDAR. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ASignificance In this study, measurements from NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation spaceborne LiDAR mission are used to understanding global-scale patterns of tropical forest canopy height. The study shows that elevation, dry season length, and
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Characterizing the structural complexity of the Earth's forests with spaceborne lidar. [PDF]
Nat CommunForest structural complexity is a key element of ecosystem functioning, impacting light environments, nutrient cycling, biodiversity, and habitat quality.
de Conto T, Armston J, Dubayah R.
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Research ReportDiurnal global ocean surface pCO2 and air-sea CO2 flux reconstructed from spaceborne LiDAR data. [PDF]
PNAS Nexus, 2023 The ocean absorbs a significant amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, helping regulate Earth's climate. However, our knowledge of ocean CO2 sink levels remains limited.
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Integrating spaceborne LiDAR and Sentinel-2 images to estimate forest aboveground biomass in Northern China. [PDF]
Carbon Balance Manag, 2022 Background Fast and accurate forest aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation and mapping is the basic work of forest management and ecosystem dynamic investigation, which is of great significance to evaluate forest quality, resource assessment, and carbon ...
Jiang F, Deng M, Tang J, Fu L, Sun H.
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International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2023 The forest canopy height is a key indicator for measuring global forest carbon stocks. Spaceborne LiDAR, a satellite remote sensing technology, plays an essential role in large-scale canopy height estimations.
Shufan Wang +4 more
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Forest aboveground biomass estimation based on spaceborne LiDAR combining machine learning model and geostatistical method. [PDF]
Front Plant SciEstimation of forest biomass at regional scale based on GEDI spaceborne LiDAR data is of great significance for forest quality assessment and carbon cycle.
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