The extraction of canopy- Understory vegetation - Topography structure using helicopter-borne LIDAR measurement between a plantation and a broad-leaved forest

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 5, Issue , 2003, Pages 3222-3224

  Hirata, Yasumasa ^a   Sakai, Atsushi ^d   Sato, Kaori ^b   Kuramoto, Shigeo ^d   Akiyama, Yukihide ^c  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^c Aero Asahi Co   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

DEM; First and last pulse data local minimum filter; Stratification of canopy; Vertical projective plane

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; HELICOPTERS; LASER BEAMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); VEGETATION;

UNDERSTORY VEGETATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0242709964     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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