A Voxel-based technique to estimate the volume of trees from terrestrial laser scanner data

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 101-106

  Bienert, A ^a   Hess, C ^b   Maas, H G ^a   Von Oheimb, G ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Point cloud; Terrestrial laser scanning; Tree; Volume estimation; Voxel

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; SCANNING; WATER TANKS; WOOD;

BOUNDING-BOX; LASER SCANNER DATA; POINT-CLOUDS; PRECISE DETERMINATIONS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNERS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; TREE; VOLUME ESTIMATIONS; VOXEL; WOOD VOLUME;

VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

DATA; ESTIMATION; TREES; VOLUME;

EID: 84924259527     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-5-101-2014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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