Estimation of forest biomass by means of genetic algorithm-based optimization of airborne laser scanning and digital aerial photograph features

Silva Fennica

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tuominen, Sakari ^a   Haapanen, Reija ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Biomass modelling; Forest inventory

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTENNAS; FORESTRY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASER APPLICATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; BIOMASS COMPONENTS; DIGITAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; ESTIMATION ERRORS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FOREST INVENTORY; LASER SCANNING DATA;

BIOMASS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AIRBORNE SENSING; BIOENERGY; BIOMASS; CARBON BUDGET; DATA SET; FOREST; FOREST INVENTORY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY;

FINLAND;

PICEA;

EID: 84881185818     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.902     Document Type: Article

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