Histogram matching for the calibration of kNN stem volume estimates

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7117-7131

  Gilichinsky, Michael ^a   Heiskanen, Janne ^b   Barth, Andreas ^c   Wallerman, JöRgen ^a   Egberth, Mikael ^a   Nilsson, Mats ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c THE FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; PIXELS;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION; CUMULATIVE FREQUENCIES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANNING; HISTOGRAM MATCHING; K NEAREST NEIGHBOURS (K-NN); NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; VOLUME ESTIMATIONS;

FORESTRY;

CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HISTOGRAM; PROBABILITY; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION; DATA BASES; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; GRAPHIC METHODS; SWEDEN;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84863506641     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2012.700134     Document Type: Article

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