A two stage method to estimate species-specific growing stock

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1451-1460

  Packalen, Petteri ^a   Suvanto, Aki ^a,b   Maltamo, Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Blom Kartta Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; FOREST INVENTORY; OPERATIONAL USE; ORIENTATION PARAMETER; RADIAL DISPLACEMENTS; RADIOMETRIC CORRECTIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICS; TWO-STAGE METHODS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; DATA SET; FOREST INVENTORY; GIS; RADIOMETER; TOPOGRAPHY;

FINLAND;

EID: 74049126022     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.75.12.1451     Document Type: Article

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