A guide to LIDAR data acquisition and processing for the forests of the pacific northwest

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report PNW-GTR

Volumn , Issue 768, 2008, Pages 1-32

  Gatziolis, Demetrios ^a   Andersen, Hans Erik ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute and relative accuracy; Canopy surface; Data quality assessment; Data storage; DEM; FIA; Forest inventory; Laser; LIDAR; Pacific northwest; Precision; Registration; Resolution; Scanning; Stand penetration; Topography

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA QUALITY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FOREST; FOREST INVENTORY; LIDAR; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHY;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

EID: 51249094527     PISSN: 08874840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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