G-ENV · Former PhD student
Thesis: Improving tropical forest above-ground biomass estimates: insights from canopy-tree structure and spatial organisation
Defended on 27 March 2017
Doctoral research
Modelling structural variation in tropical forests using remote sensing and 3D forest-stand models.
Host laboratories
UMR AMAP
Supervision
Raphaël Pélissier, with co-supervision by Uta Berger
Doctoral school
GAIA Doctoral School
Summary
The thesis develops approaches to improve estimates of above-ground biomass in tropical forests by combining information on canopy structure, spatial organisation, remote sensing and three-dimensional forest modelling.