Using mixed estimation for combining airborne laser scanning data in two different forest areas

Silva Fennica

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 91-107

  Suvanto, Aki ^a   Maltamo, Matti ^b  

^a Blom Kartta Oy   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Area based method; Mixed estimation; Regression models

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AREA-BASED; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; REGRESSION MODEL; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TREE DIAMETER AND HEIGHTS;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BASAL AREA; DATA SET; FOREST INVENTORY; LASER METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD;

ACCURACY; COST CONTROL; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; LASERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING;

FINLAND;

EID: 77953062541     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.164     Document Type: Article

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