Bayesian approach to tree detection based on airborne laser scanning data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2690-2699

  Lahivaara, Timo ^a   Seppanen, Aku ^a   Kaipio, Jari P ^b   Vauhkonen, Jari ^c   Korhonen, Lauri ^a   Tokola, Timo ^a   Maltamo, Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Estimation; forestry; modeling

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ESTIMATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MEASUREMENTS; MODELS;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; ALLOMETRIC MODELS; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BAYESIAN INVERSION; CROWN DELINEATION; FIELD MEASUREMENT DATA; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIOR INFORMATION;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALLOMETRY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BOREAL FOREST; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORESTRY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LASERS;

EID: 84896319806     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2264548     Document Type: Article

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