Multiecho-recording mobile laser scanning for enhancing individual tree crown reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 11 PART1, 2012, Pages 4323-4332

  Lin, Yi ^a   Hyyppa, Juha ^a  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Individual tree crown reconstruction; mirroring; mobile laser scanning (MLS); multiecho recording; single scan

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR;

INDIVIDUAL TREE CROWN; LASER SCANNING; MIRRORING; MULTIECHO RECORDING; SINGLE SCAN;

LASERS;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; ECHO SOUNDING; LASER METHOD; LIDAR; MAPPING METHOD; PRECISION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SAMPLING; SCANNER; TREE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

FORESTRY; LASERS; MAPPING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SCANNING;

EID: 84869508230     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2194503     Document Type: Review

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