Assessment of low density full-waveform airborne laser scanning for individual tree detection and tree species classification

Forests

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1011-1031

  Yu, Xiaowei ^a   Litkey, Paula ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Holopainen, Markus ^b   Vastaranta, Mikko ^b  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

ALS; Classification; Individual tree detection; Laser scanning; Tree species; Waveform

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; LASER APPLICATIONS; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ALS; INDIVIDUAL TREE DETECTIONS; LASER SCANNING; TREE SPECIES; WAVE FORMS;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BOREAL FOREST; FOREST COVER; FOREST INVENTORY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LASER METHOD; TREE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; LASERS; SCANNING;

FINLAND;

PICEA;

EID: 84902519972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f5051011     Document Type: Article

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