An airborne multi-angle hyperspectral experiment in a boreal forest of Northeast China

A campaign aimed at airborne multi-angle hyperspectral data collection was designed and implemented in Daxinganling of Northeastern China in the August of 2015. The purpose of this campaign is to investigate the potentials of multi-angle optical data for forest height and biomass estimation. The observation angles of 0°, 20°, 44° and 55° were used with 400-1000 nm spectrum range. To provide comparable information, airborne Lidar data were collected simultaneously. First results showed the collected angular information captured the Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) characteristics of forest spectrum. The relationship of lidar derived vertical parameters and multi-angle optical data are under further investigation.