Assessing the stability of canopy maps produced from UAV-LiDAR data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3879-3882

  Wallace, Luke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canopy Cover; Forestry; LiDAR; Unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894278309     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723679     Document Type: Conference Paper

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