Accuracy comparison of various remote sensing data sources in the retrieval of forest stand attributes

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 128, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 109-120

  Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Hyyppä, Hannu ^a   Inkinen, Mikko ^a   Engdahl, Marcus ^a   Linko, Susan ^a   Zhu, Yi Hong ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest inventory; Remote sensing; Stem volume

Indexed keywords

FOREST INVENTORY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; NEURAL NETWORKS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SPECTROMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 0034653236     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00278-9     Document Type: Article

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