Derivations of stand heights from airborne laser scanner data with canopy-based quantile estimators

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1016-1031

  Magnussen, S ^a   Boudewyn, P ^a  

^a PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; CANOPY; LASER METHOD; STAND STRUCTURE;

PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 0031787612     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x98-078     Document Type: Article

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