An assessment of the repeatability of automatic forest inventory metrics derived from UAV-borne laser scanning data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7160-7169

  Wallace, Luke ^a   Musk, Robert ^b   Lucieer, Arko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b FORESTRY TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forestry; lasers; remote sensing; remotely piloted aircraft

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; LASERS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ANALYSIS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTOMATED METHODS; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; LASER SCANNING DATA; PLANTATION FORESTS; REMOTELY PILOTED AIRCRAFT; REPRODUCIBILITIES; TASMANIA , AUSTRALIA;

FORESTRY;

AUTOMATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER METHOD; PLANTATION FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; UNDERSTORY; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

AIR CRAFT; FORESTRY; INVENTORIES; LASERS; REMOTE SENSING;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS;

EID: 84902086164     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2308208     Document Type: Article

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