Validation of mobile laser scanning for understory tree characterization in urban forest

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3167-3173

  Lin, Yi ^a,b   Holopainen, Markus ^c   Kankare, Ville ^c   Hyyppa, Juha ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Mobile laser scanning (MLS); primary nearest point distance (PNPD); understory tree characterization; urban forest

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

FEATURE VARIABLE; FOREST INVENTORY; LASER SCANNING; NEAREST POINT; POSITIONING ACCURACY; TREE STRUCTURES; URBAN FORESTS; WIRELESS POSITIONING;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84906947885     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2295821     Document Type: Article

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