Towards an optimized method of olive tree crown volume measurement

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 3672-3687

  Miranda Fuentes, Antonio ^a   Llorens, Jordi ^a   Gamarra Diezma, Juan L ^a   Gil Ribes, Jesús A ^a   Gil, Emilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Canopy characterization; Olive tree; Terrestrial LiDAR; Tree crown volume

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL RADAR;

CHARACTERIZATION METHODS; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; OLIVE TREE; PROJECTED AREA; TERRESTRIAL LIDARS; TREE CROWNS; TREE PLANTATIONS; VOLUME METHOD;

FORESTRY;

LASERS; MEASUREMENT; SENSORS; VOLUME;

EID: 84925849051     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150203671     Document Type: Article

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