Airborne laser scanning and digital stereo imagery measures of forest structure: Comparative results and implications to forest mapping and inventory update

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 382-395

  Vastaranta, Mikko ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b   White, Joanne C ^b   Pekkarinen, Anssi ^c   Tuominen, Sakari ^d   Ginzler, Christian ^e   Kankare, Ville ^a   Holopainen, Markus ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^f   Hyyppä, Hannu ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^f FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^g AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^h HELSINKI METROPOLIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; FOREST STRUCTURAL ATTRIBUTES; FORESTRY APPLICATIONS; GROUND SURFACE ELEVATION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

ESTIMATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

FORESTRY;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84889569770     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m13-046     Document Type: Article

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