Simultaneously acquired airborne laser scanning and multispectral imagery for individual tree species identification

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 125-138

  Ørka, Hans Ole ^a   Gobakken, Terje ^a   Næsset, Erik ^a   Ene, Liviu ^a   Lien, Vegard ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION COSTS; ACQUISITION STRATEGIES; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; COST-EFFICIENT; DATA COLLECTION; DECIDUOUS TREES; DIGITAL IMAGERY; FLIGHT MISSION; FOREST INVENTORY; INDIVIDUAL TREE; LARGE-FORMAT; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; SIMULTANEOUS ACQUISITION; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; TREE SPECIES;

CAMERAS; DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; SEPARATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

CAMERAS; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LASERS; REMOTE SENSING; SEPARATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84865759829     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m12-021     Document Type: Article

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