Estimation of standing wood volume in forest compartments by exploiting airborne laser scanning information: Model-based, Design-based, And hybrid perspectives

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1303-1311

  Corona, Piermaria ^a   Fattorini, Lorenzo ^b   Franceschi, Sara ^b   Scrinzi, Gianfranco ^a   Torresan, Chiara ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Auxiliary information; Forest management planning; Plot sampling; Ratio model; Simulation study

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; PIXELS; SCANNING; SURVEYS;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AUXILIARY INFORMATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANNING; RATIO MODELS; SIMULATION STUDIES;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST COVER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; SIMULATION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WOOD;

ITALY;

EID: 84909960971     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2014-0203     Document Type: Article

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