Automatic detection of harvested trees and determination of forest growth using airborne laser scanning

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 451-462

  Yu, Xiaowei ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Kaartinen, Harri ^a   Maltamo, Matti ^b  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest; Laser; Trees

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; LASER BEAMS; SAMPLING; SCANNING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AIRBORNE LASERS; FOREST GROWTH; LASER ACQUISITIONS; TEST SITES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALGORITHM; BOREAL FOREST; FOREST INVENTORY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LASER METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 2342525333     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.02.001     Document Type: Article

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