Modelling variation in pinus radiata stem volume and outerwood stress-wave velocity from LiDAR metrics

New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science

Volumn 43, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-7

  Watt, Michael S ^a   Adams, Thomas ^b   Marshall, Hamish ^c   Pont, David ^a   Lee, John ^a   Crawley, David ^d   Watt, Pete ^e  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

^b MetService   (New Zealand)

^c Interpine Forestry Ltd   (New Zealand)

^d PF Olsen and Company Ltd   (New Zealand)

^e Indufor Asia Pacific Ltd   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aerial laser scanning; ALS; Modulus of elasticity; Pinus radiata; Radiata pine

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ALUMINUM; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTIC WAVES; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; WAVE PROPAGATION;

LASER SCANNING; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; PERFORMANCE CRITERION; PINUS RADIATA; RADIATA PINE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STRESS WAVE VELOCITIES; STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ELASTIC MODULUS; LIDAR; MODELING; STEM; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS FIELD; TREE; WAVE VELOCITY;

ELASTICITY; FORESTRY; LASERS; PINUS RADIATA; RADAR; SCANNING;

PINUS RADIATA; RADIATA;

EID: 84884556649     PISSN: 00480134     EISSN: 11795395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1179-5395-43-1     Document Type: Article

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