Laser-assisted selection of field plots for an area-based forest inventory

Silva Fennica

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Gobakken, Terje ^a   Korhonen, Lauri ^b   Næsset, Erik ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Area based approach; Forest inventory; Lidar; Stratified sampling

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AREA-BASED; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FOREST INVENTORY; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; PRIOR INFORMATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STRATIFIED SAMPLING;

LASER APPLICATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RADAR;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY; DATA SET; FIELD SURVEY; FOREST INVENTORY; HEIGHT; LIDAR; SELECTION; STEM;

FORESTRY; INVENTORY CONTROL; RADAR; SAMPLING;

EID: 84893022879     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: 22424075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.943     Document Type: Article

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