Estimation of forest carbon storage based on airborne LiDAR data

Applied Mechanics and Materials

Volumn 195-196, Issue , 2012, Pages 1314-1320

  Liu, Chong ^a   Shao, Zhenfeng ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Binary tree volume table; Canopy structure; Carbon stock; LiDAR; Marker controlled watershed algorithm

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA; CANOPY HEIGHT MODELS; CANOPY STRUCTURE; CARBON STOCKS; CARBON STORAGE; DATA UPDATING; FOREST AREA; LIDAR DATA; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MARKER-CONTROLLED WATERSHED SEGMENTATION; ORTHOPHOTO IMAGES; POINT CLOUD DATA; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; TOTAL CARBON; TRUE COLORS; WATER-SHED ALGORITHM;

BINARY TREES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; OPTICAL RADAR;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHMS; CARBON; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; RADAR; WATER SHEDS;

EID: 84867251807     PISSN: 16609336     EISSN: 16627482     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.195-196.1314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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