Breast height diameter estimation from high-density airborne LiDAR data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1056-1060

  Bucksch, Alexander ^a,b,c   Lindenbergh, Roderik ^a   Abd Rahman, Muhammad Zulkarnain ^a,d   Menenti, Massimo ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Computational geometry; Forestry; Image analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894036566     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2285471     Document Type: Article

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