Operationalizing the use of LIDAR in forest resource inventories: What is the optimal point density?

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference 2010: Opportunities for Emerging Geospatial Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 561-570

  Lim, Kevin ^a   Treitz, Paul ^b   Woods, Murray ^c   Nesbitt, Dave ^c   Etheridge, David ^c  

^a Lim Geomatics Inc   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; ACCURATE PREDICTION; AIRBORNE LIDAR; AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA; AVERAGE HEIGHT; BASAL AREA; DATA SETS; FIELD DATA; FOREST CONDITIONS; FOREST INDUSTRY; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST RESOURCE INVENTORY; FOREST TYPE; ONTARIO; ONTARIO , CANADA; OPTIMAL POINTS; POINT DENSITY; QUADRATIC MEAN DIAMETER; STAND LEVELS; STEM DENSITY; STEPWISE REGRESSION; STUDY SITES;

FORECASTING; NATURAL RESOURCES; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTRY;

FORECASTS; FORESTRY; NATURAL RESOURCES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84868521930     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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