Estimating plot volume using lidar height and intensity distributional parameters

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 4601-4629

  Kwak, Doo Ahn ^a   Cui, Guishan ^a   Lee, Woo Kyun ^a   Cho, Hyun Kook ^b   Jeon, Seong Woo ^c   Lee, Seung Ho ^d  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Forestry Promotion Institute   (South Korea)

^c Korea Environment Institute (KEI)   (South Korea)

^d Korea Forest Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; LINEAR REGRESSION;

CORRECTED AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERIONS; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REGRESSION MODEL; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL VARIABLES; VOLUME ESTIMATIONS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST COVER; HEIGHT; LIDAR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKEWNESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PINUS KORAIENSIS;

EID: 84904973864     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.915592     Document Type: Article

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