Theses and Dissertations
Issuing Body
Mississippi State University
Advisor
Evans, David L.
Committee Member
Londo, H. Alexis
Committee Member
Cooke III, William H.
Date of Degree
8-17-2013
Document Type
Graduate Thesis - Open Access
Major
Forestry
Degree Name
Master of Science
College
College of Forest Resources
Department
Department of Forestry
Abstract
Crown volume is defined as the geometric space occupied by the crown. Crown volume and the change (growth) of crown volume over time can be an important part of multi-temporal forest analyses but is expensive and time consuming to obtain through conventional forest survey methods for large, remote areas. LiDAR-derived crown volume growth was compared to an expected amount of crown volume growth for 220 Douglasir trees in the Panther Creek, Oregon watershed. A paired t-test between expected crown volume growth and the LiDAR-derived crown volume growth resulted in a p-value of 0.85. Regression procedures between expected crown volume and LiDAR-derived crown volume in 2008 and 2012 resulted in R2 values of 0.45 and 0.53, respectively. LiDAR measured change in crown volume over time was not significantly different than the expected amount of change. With further research, multi-temporal LiDAR could become a viable tool for forest analyses.
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11668/19884
Recommended Citation
Frew, Michael S., "Measuring Tree Growth by Modeling Multi-Temporal LiDAR" (2013). Theses and Dissertations. 3040.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/3040
Comments
crown volume||remote sensing||Douglasir