Tree stem and height measurements using terrestrial laser scanning and the RANSAC algorithm

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 4323-4344

  Olofsson, Kenneth ^a   Holmgren, Johan ^a   Olsson, Håkan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Canopy; RANSAC; Stem; Stem diameter; Terrestrial laser scanning; Tree height

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MEASUREMENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SCANNING; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CANOPY; RANSAC; STEM; STEM DIAMETER; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; TREE HEIGHT;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHMS; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICS; MEASUREMENT; PLANTS; STEMS; TREES;

EID: 84901487430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6054323     Document Type: Article

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