Stem biomass estimation based on stem reconstruction from terrestrial laser scanning point clouds

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 344-353

  Yu, Xiaowei ^a   Liang, Xinlian ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Kankare, Ville ^b   Vastaranta, Mikko ^b   Holopainen, Markus ^b  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; BIOMASS DATA; BIOMASS ESTIMATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS VALIDATION; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; DESTRUCTIVE SAMPLING; DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FOREST BIOMASS; HIGH AUTOMATION; INDIVIDUAL TREE; LEAVE-ONE-OUT; MODEL FITTING; NORWAY SPRUCE; POINT CLOUD; R VALUE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SCOTS PINE; STEM BIOMASS; STEM VOLUME; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; TREE SPECIES;

FORESTRY; LASERS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MEASUREMENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEEBECK EFFECT; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

BIOMASS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATION; BIOMASS; CONIFEROUS TREE; CORRELATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; STEM; VOLUME;

BIOMASS; FORESTS; LASERS; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84869034903     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2012.734931     Document Type: Article

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