Approaches for estimating stand-level volume using terrestrial laser scanning in a single-scan mode

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 666-676

  Astrup, Rasmus ^a   Ducey, Mark J ^b   Granhus, Aksel ^a   Ritter, Tim ^c   von Lüpke, Nikolas ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angle count sampling; Distance sampling; Forest inventory; Lidar; Nondetection; TLS; Volume

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEEBECK EFFECT;

DISTANCE SAMPLING; FOREST INVENTORY; NON-DETECTION; TLS; VOLUME;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

FORESTRY; INVENTORY CONTROL; PLANTS; RADAR; SAMPLING;

EID: 84901319345     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2013-0535     Document Type: Article

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