Potential of UltraCamX stereo images for estimating timber volume and basal area at the plot level in mixed European forests

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 731-741

  Straub, Christoph ^a   Stepper, Christoph ^a   Seitz, Rudolf ^a   Waser, Lars T ^b  

^a Research Group: Remote Sensing   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AUTOMATIC IMAGE MATCHING; CENTRAL EUROPEAN FORESTS; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; EUROPEAN FORESTS; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; TECHNICAL ADVANCES;

ESTIMATION; IMAGE MATCHING; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATION; BASAL AREA; DOMINANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; MIXED FOREST; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; STEREO IMAGE; TIMBER;

FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SCANNING;

CENTRAL EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 84880951816     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2013-0125     Document Type: Article

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