Evaluation of a smartphone app for forest sample plot measurements

Forests

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1179-1194

  Vastaranta, Mikko ^a,b   Latorre, Eduardo González ^a   Luoma, Ville ^a,b   Saarinen, Ninni ^a,b   Holopainen, Markus ^a,b   Hyyppä, Juha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest inventory; Forest management planning; Forest mensuration; Forest technology; GIS; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES;

FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANNING; FOREST TECHNOLOGY; HEIGHT MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT BIAS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOUTHERN FINLAND; SPECIES SPECIFICS;

FORESTRY;

FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GIS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REMOTE SENSING;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; GIS; INVENTORIES; REMOTE SENSING;

FINLAND;

PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84930641868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f6041179     Document Type: Article

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