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Photogramm Remote Sens 60:100–112
Wagner W, Hollaus M, Briese C, Ducic V (2008) 3D vegetation mapping using small-footprint
full-waveform airborne laser scanners. Int J Remote Sens 29:1433–1452
Wang Z, Schaaf CB, Lewis P, Knyazikhin Y, Schull MA, Strahler AH, Yao T, Myneni RB,
Chopping M (2011) Retrieval of canopy vertical structure using MODIS data. Remote Sens
Environ 115(6):1595–1601
Walker WS, Kellndorfer JM, LaPoint E, Hoppus M, Westfall J (2007) An empirical InSAR
optical fusion approach to mapping vegetation height. Remote Sens Environ 109:482–499
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Central Europe-a meta-analysis approach toward prediction and uncertainty estimation. Tree
Physiol 24:121–139
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Committee of the U.S. Interagency Carbon Cycle Science Program. U.S. Global Change
Research Program, Washington, D.C.
Woodcock CA, Allen R, Anderson M, Belward A, Bindschadler R, Cohen W et al (2008) Free
access to landsat imagery. Science 320(5879):1011
Wu Y, Strahler AH (1994) Remote estimation of crown size, stand density, and biomass on the
Oregon transect. Ecol Appl 4:299–312
Wulder M, St-Onge B, Treitz P (2000) Three-dimensional analysis of forest structure and terrain
using LIDAR technology. GEOIDE Calgary 2000, From Ideas to Innovation-Geomatics for a
New Millennium, Calgary, 25–26 May 2000
Yang W, Ni-Meister W, Lee S (2011) Assessment of the impacts of surface topography, off-nadir
pointing and vegetation structure on vegetation lidar waveforms using an extended geo-metric
optical and radiative transfer model. Remote Sens Environ 15(11):2810–2822
Zeng Y, Schaepman ME (2009) Quantitative forest canopy structure assessment using an inverted
geometric-optical model and up-scaling. Int J Remote Sens 30(6):1385–1406
Zhang X, Kondragunta S (2006) Estimating forest biomass in the USA using generalized
allometric model and MODIS product data. Geophys Res Lett 33:L09402. doi:10.1029/
2006GL025879
Zhang X, Schaaf CB, Friedl MA, Strahler AH, Gao F, Hodges JC (2002) MODIS tasseled cap
transformation and its utility. Proceedings of IEEE 2002 international geoscience and remote
sensing symposium and the 24
th Canadian symposium on remote sensing, 24–28 June 2002,
Toronto, pp 1149–1151
Zhang X, Kondragunta S, Ram J, Schmidt C, Huang HC (2012) Near-real-time global biomass
burning emissions product from geostationary satellite constellation. J Geophys Res
117:D14201. doi:10.1029/2012JD017459
Zheng D, Rademacher J, Chen J, Crow T, Bressee M, Moine JL, Ryu S (2004) Estimating
aboveground biomass using Landsat ETM+ data across a managed landscape in northern
Wisconsin, USA. Remote Sens Environ 93(3):402–411
Zwally HJ, Schutz B, Abdalati W, Abshire J, Bentley C, Brenner A, Bufton J, Dezio J, Hancock
D, Harding . (2002) ICESat’s laser measurements of polar ice, atmosphere, ocean, and land.
J Geodyn 34(3–4):405–445
98
X. Zhang and W. Ni-meister