Recovering tree heights from airborne laser scanner data

Forest Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 407-422

  Magnussen, Steen ^a   Eggermont, Paul ^b   LaRiccia, Vincent N ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy height; Crown area; Deconvolution; EM algorithm; Error function; Extreme value distribution; PPS sampling; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032811250     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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