The use of a hand-held camera for individual tree 3D mapping in forest sample plots

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 6587-6603

  Liang, Xinlian ^a   Jaakkola, Anttoni ^a   Wang, Yunsheng ^a,b   Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Honkavaara, Eija ^a   Liu, Jingbin ^a   Kaartinen, Harri ^a  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forestry; Hand held camera; Image based point cloud; Individual tree level; Laser scanning; Terrestrial

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; MAPPING; MEASUREMENTS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; CAMERAS; DATA HANDLING; LASER APPLICATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MEDICAL IMAGING; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

HAND-HELD CAMERAS; INDIVIDUAL TREE; LASER SCANNING; POINT CLOUD; TERRESTRIAL;

FORESTRY;

CAMERAS; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MAPPING; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SCANNING;

EID: 84904479639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6076587     Document Type: Article

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