Adjusting for nondetection in forest inventories derived from terrestrial laser scanning

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 410-425

  Ducey, Mark J ^a   Astrup, Rasmus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION PROBABILITIES; DISTANCE SAMPLING; EMPIRICAL ESTIMATIONS; FOREST INVENTORY; SOUTHERN NORWAY; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

ESTIMATION; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

FORESTRY;

ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; INSTRUMENTS; SURVEYING;

EID: 84889594332     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m13-048     Document Type: Article

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