Identification of scandinavian commercial species of individual trees from airborne laser scanning data using alpha shape metrics

Forest Science

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-47

  Vauhkonen, Jari ^a   Tokola, Timo ^a   Packalén, Petteri ^a   Maltamo, Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Alpha shape; Intensity; Light detection and ranging (LiDAR); Texture; Tree species classification

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; ALPHA SHAPE; INTENSITY; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING (LIDAR); TREE SPECIES CLASSIFICATION;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; LANDING; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METRIC SYSTEM; OPTICAL RADAR; RANGE FINDING; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL TESTS; TEST FACILITIES; TEXTURES;

SCANNING;

COMPUTATION; FORESTRY; LASERS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEXTURE;

CONIFERALES; PICEA;

EID: 68349110942     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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