Leaf orientation retrieval from terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 10 PART2, 2012, Pages 3970-3979

  Zheng, Guang ^a,b   Moskal, L Monika ^a,c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial laser scanning (ALS); leaf area index (LAI); leaf orientation distribution; mobile laser scanning (MLS); normal vector; point cloud data (PCD); terrestrial laser scanning (TLS)

Indexed keywords

LASER SCANNING; LEAF AREA INDEX; NORMAL VECTOR; ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTIONS; POINT CLOUD DATA; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING;

ALGORITHMS; ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; REMOTE SENSING; SEEBECK EFFECT; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; SUN;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

ALGORITHM; AZIMUTH; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA SET; FOLIAGE; FOREST CANOPY; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIDAR; REMOTE SENSING; SEEDLING; SOLAR RADIATION; VECTOR;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; FOLIAR ANALYSIS; FOREST CANOPY; LEAVES; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; SUN LIGHT;

EID: 84867048549     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2188533     Document Type: Article

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