Abstract
Airborne scanning laser altimetry offers the potential for extracting high-resolution vegetation structure characteristics for monitoring and modeling the land surface. A unique dataset is used to study the sensitivity of laser interception profiles and laser-derived leaf area index (LAI) to assumptions about the surface structure and the measurement process. To simulate laser interception, one- and three-dimensional (3-D) vegetation structure models have been developed for maize and sunflower crops. Over sunflowers, a simple regression technique has been developed to extract laser-derived LAI, which accounts for measurement and model biases. Over maize, a 3-D structure/interception model that accounts for the effects of the laser inclination angle and detection threshold has enabled the fraction of radiation reaching the ground surface to be modelled to within 0.5% of the observed fraction. Good agreement was found between modelled and measured profiles of laser interception with a vertical resolution of 10 cm.
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