A model-based approach for airborne laser scanning inventory: Application for square grid spatial pattern

Forest Science

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 106-118

  Mehtatalo, Lauri ^a   Nyblom, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Forest inventory; Germ grain model; Maximum likelihood; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; CANOPY HEIGHTS; FITTING METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; GERM-GRAIN MODEL; GRID PATTERN; GROUND LEVEL; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MODEL BASED APPROACH; NORWAY SPRUCE; PERFORMANCE POTENTIALS; PLANTATION FORESTS; RANDOM TREE; SIMULATION STUDIES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SQUARE GRID; STAND DENSITIES; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; TREE HEIGHT; TREE LOCATION; TREE-HEIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

LASER APPLICATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; INVENTORY CONTROL; LASERS; SCANNING;

EID: 84862649558     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5849/forsci.10-023     Document Type: Article

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