Potential of aerial image-based monoscopic and multiview single-tree forest inventory: A simulation approach

Forest Science

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 136-147

  Korpela, Ilkka Sakari ^a   Tokola, Timo Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Allometry; Diameter; Photogrammetry; Species; Volume

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALLOMETRY; FOREST INVENTORY; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERROR (RMSE); VOLUME ESTIMATES;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; INVENTORY CONTROL; PHOTOGRAPHY; SIMULATION;

EID: 33646191304     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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