Automated methods for measuring DBH and tree heights with a commercial scanning lidar

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 219-227

  Huang, Huabing ^a   Li, Zhan ^a   Gong, Peng ^a,b   Cheng, Xiao ^a   Clinton, Nick ^a   Cao, Chunxiang ^a   Ni, Wenjian ^a   Wang, Lei ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DATA VISUALIZATION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; RASTERIZATION; SURVEYING;

AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION; CIRCLE FITTING ALGORITHM; DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ITERATIVE CLOSET POINT ALGORITHMS; LIDAR (LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING); STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TRANSFORMATION MATRICES;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CARBON CYCLE; CLOUD; DATA SET; DIAMETER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FOREST INVENTORY; FORESTRY MODELING; HABITAT TYPE; HEIGHT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIDAR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATRIX; MEASUREMENT METHOD; THRESHOLD; TREE;

ALGORITHMS; EXTRACTIVES; FORESTRY; PLANTS; RADAR; SURVEYING;

EID: 79960342179     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.77.3.219     Document Type: Article

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