Modelling the vertical distribution of canopy fuel load using national forest inventory and low-density airbone laser scanning data

• Eduardo González-Ferreiro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eduardo González-Ferreiro, Stéfano Arellano-Pérez

  Current address: Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America; Laboratory of Applications of Remote Sensing in Ecology (LARSE), USDA Forest Service—Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

  Affiliation Unidad de Gestión Forestal Sostenible, Departamento de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain

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• Stéfano Arellano-Pérez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eduardo González-Ferreiro, Stéfano Arellano-Pérez

  Affiliation Unidad de Gestión Forestal Sostenible, Departamento de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain

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• Fernando Castedo-Dorado,

  Affiliation Departamento de Ingeniería y Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad de León, Campus de Ponferrada, Ponferrada, Spain

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• Andrea Hevia,

  Affiliation Sustainable Forest Management Area, Forest and Wood Technology Research Centre (CETEMAS), Pumarabule, Carbayín, Siero—Asturias, Spain

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• José Antonio Vega,

  Affiliation Centro de Investigación Forestal de Lourizán, Pontevedra, Spain

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• Daniel Vega-Nieva,

  Affiliation Instituto de Silvicultura e Industria de la madera, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Ciudad Universitaria, Durango, Durango, México

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• Juan Gabriel Álvarez-González ,

  * E-mail: juangabriel.alvarez@usc.es

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Unidad de Gestión Forestal Sostenible, Departamento de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5206-9128

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• Ana Daría Ruiz-González

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Unidad de Gestión Forestal Sostenible, Departamento de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain

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