Automatic derivation of features related to forest stand attributes using laser scanner

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 33, Issue , 2000, Pages 421-428

  Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Hyyppä, Hannu ^b   Ruppert, Georg ^c  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Forest inventory; Forest stand attributes; Laser scanning; Segmentation; Watershed

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; WATERSHEDS;

AUTOMATIC DERIVATION; AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; BOREAL FOREST ZONE; FIELD INVENTORIES; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST STAND; LASER SCANNER DATA; LASER SCANNING;

FORESTRY;

EID: 78549232492     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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