Impact of forest canopy on quality and accuracy of GPS measurements

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 3595-3610

  Sigrist, P ^a   Coppin, P ^b   Hermy, M ^b  

^a Geosat   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

FOREST CANOPY; GEOREFERENCING; POSITION DILUTION OF PRECISION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FOREST CANOPY; GPS;

EID: 0033391483     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311699211228     Document Type: Article

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