Detecting changes in forest structure over time with bi-temporal terrestrial laser scanning data

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 242-255

  Liang, Xinlian ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Kaartinen, Harri ^a   Holopainen, Markus ^b   Melkas, Timo ^b  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Change detection; Forestry; Point cloud; Remote sensing; Terrestrial laser scanning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873821197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi1030242     Document Type: Article

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