Laser scanning measurements on trees for logging harvesting operations

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 9273-9285

  Zheng, Yili ^a   Liu, Jinhao ^a   Wang, Dian ^a   Yang, Ruixi ^a  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fletcher Reeves conjugate gradient; Kinematics control; Laser measurement; Logging harvester

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864362563     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120709273     Document Type: Article

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