Effects of individual tree detection error sources on forest management planning calculations

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1614-1626

  Vastaranta, Mikko ^a   Holopainen, Markus ^a   Yu, Xiaowei ^b   Hyyppä, Juha ^b   Mäkinen, Antti ^c   Rasinmäki, Jussi ^c   Melkas, Timo ^d   Kaartinen, Harri ^b   Hyyppä, Hannu ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Simosol Oy ^*  (Finland)

^d Metsäteho Ltd   (Finland)

^e AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Airborne laser scanning; Forest inventory; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; DETECTION ACCURACY; DETECTION ERROR; ERROR LEVELS; ERROR SOURCES; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANNING; FOREST STAND; INDIVIDUAL TREE; MEAN DIAMETER; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SIMULATION; SOUTHERN FINLAND; STAND BASAL AREA; STAND LEVELS; STEM NUMBERS; STUDY AREAS; TREE DIAMETER; TREE HEIGHT; WOOD VOLUME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; INVESTMENTS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PLANNING; PLANT EXTRACTS;

ERROR DETECTION;

ACCURACY; ERRORS; EXTRACTIVES; FORECASTS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY CONTROL; INVESTMENT; LASERS; PLANNING; PLANTS; SCANNING; SIMULATION;

EID: 80052670803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3081614     Document Type: Article

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