Developing Hyperspectral LiDAR for Structural and Biochemical Analysis of Forest Data
Developing Hyperspectral LiDAR for Structural and Biochemical Analysis of Forest Data
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2012-11
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D. Martinez-Ramirez;G. Buller;A. Mccarthy;Ximing Ren;Andrew M. Wallace;S. Morak;Caroline Nichol;Iain H. Woodhouse
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D. Martinez-Ramirez;G. Buller;A. Mccarthy;Ximing Ren;Andrew M. Wallace;S. Morak;Caroline Nichol;Iain H. Woodhouse
Single wavelength LiDAR has been successfully used for recovering structural data from forest canopies. However, multior hyper-spectral canopy LiDAR can also provide information on the vertical distribution of physiological processes which informs on actual carbon sequestration as well as existing stocks, and can disambiguate ground from canopy returns. This is critical to better understand and predict the impact of climate change, and to understand the seasonal dynamics of ecosystem carbon uptake in response to environmental drivers such as water, temperature, light and nutrient availability. The development and evaluation of a new time-correlated single photon counting LiDAR system to record full waveform depth profiles at several wavelengths is reported. Although a supercontinuum source with the potential for measurement at many wavelengths is usually used, in this study, only four discrete detector channels at 531, 570, 670 and 780nm are used. Measurements are shown of both single leaf and small conifer samples, and the results obtained are compared with the anticipated results. To that end, a variable dimension structural model, coupled to spectral simulation using the PROSPECT model, is deployed. The study shows the potential of multior hyper-spectral LiDAR for accurate structural and physiological recovery, when the number of parameters is constrained, and leads to make recommendations on the future development of multiple wavelength LiDAR systems in this context.