Automatic stem mapping using single-scan terrestrial laser scanning

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 661-670

  Liang, Xinlian ^a   Litkey, Paula ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Kaartinen, Harri ^a   Vastaranta, Mikko ^b   Holopainen, Markus ^b  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forestry; laser measurement application; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; DATA FORMAT; DEVELOPED MODEL; DISTRIBUTION PROPERTY; FIELD DATA COLLECTION; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST PLOTS; GENERAL SOLUTIONS; GROUND TRUTH; INDIVIDUAL TREE; LASER MEASUREMENT APPLICATION; LASER POINT; MANAGED FOREST; REFERENCE DATA; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING;

ALGORITHMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; DATA SET; FOREST INVENTORY; LASER; MAPPING METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; INSTRUMENTS; LASERS; MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; SURVEYING;

EID: 84856345982     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2161613     Document Type: Article

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