Table 1 List of canopy structural metrics derived from airborne LiDAR
Canopy structural metric | Abbreviations |
|---|---|
Total number of returns | totRET |
Count of returns by return number | ret1, ret2, ret3, ret4, ret5, ret6, ret7, ret8, ret9 |
Minimum | minCH |
Maximum | maxCH |
Mean | MCH |
Median | medCH |
Mode | modCH |
Standard deviation | stdev |
Variance | var |
Coefficient of variation | CV |
Interquartile distance | intD |
Skewness | skew |
Kurtosis | kurt |
Average absolute deviation | AAD |
Median of the deviations from the overall median | MADmed |
Median of the deviations from the overall mode | MADmod |
L-moments (L1, L2, L3, L4) | L1, L2, L3, L4 |
L-moment skewness | Lskew |
L-moment kurtosis | Kurt |
Percentile values (5th–95th) | q1, q5, q10, q20, q25, q30, q40, q50, q60, q70, q75, q80, q90, q95, q99 |
Canopy relief ratio | CRR |
Quadratic mean | CQM |
Cubic mean | CCM |
Canopy cover | cov |
Canopy density | dens |
Strata counts | s2, s4, s6, s8, s10, s12, s14, s16, s18, s20, s22, s24, s26, s28, s30, s32, s34, s36, s38, s40 |