Uav lidar for below-canopy forest surveys

Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-68

  Chisholm, Ryan A ^a,b   Cui, Jinqiang ^a   Lum, Shawn K Y ^c   Chen, Ben M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biomass estimation; Diameter measurement; Forest survey; LiDAR; Tree; Unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SURVEYS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; BATTERY TECHNOLOGY; CURRENT LIMITATION; DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; FOREST ENVIRONMENTS; FOREST STRUCTURE; REMOTE SENSING TOOLS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84933514687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22913467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/juvs-2013-0017     Document Type: Article

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