Comparison of four types of 3D data for timber volume estimation

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 155, Issue , 2014, Pages 325-333

  Rahlf, Johannes ^a   Breidenbach, Johannes ^a   Solberg, Svein ^a   Næsset, Erik ^b   Astrup, Rasmus ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Digital aerial photographs; Digital photogrammetry; Forest inventory; Mixed effects models; Radargrammetry; TanDEM X; TerraSAR X; Timber volume

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; DIGITAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; FOREST INVENTORY; MIXED EFFECTS MODELS; RADARGRAMMETRY; TANDEM-X; TERRASAR-X; TIMBER VOLUME;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; TANDEM-X; TERRASAR-X; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIMBER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VOLUME;

EID: 84909586053     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.08.036     Document Type: Article

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