Generating pit-free canopy height models from airborne lidar

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 863-872

  Khosravipour, Anahita ^a   Skidmore, Andrew K ^a   Isenburg, Martin ^b   Wang, Tiejun ^a   Hussin, Yousif A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b RAPIDLASSO GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL RADAR;

AIRBORNE LIDAR; CANOPY HEIGHT MODELS; FIRST RETURNS; FOREST INVENTORY PARAMETERS; INDIVIDUAL TREE; LOW DENSITY; TREE CROWNS; TREE DETECTIONS;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; FOREST INVENTORY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIDAR;

FOREST CANOPY; HEIGHT; INVENTORY CONTROL; MODELS;

EID: 84924238769     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.80.9.863     Document Type: Article

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