Assessing height changes in a highly structured forest using regularly acquired aerial image data

Forestry

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 304-316

  Stepper, Christoph ^a   Straub, Christoph ^a   Pretzsch, Hans ^b  

^a Bavarian State Institute of Forestry   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; FIELD SURVEY; FOREST INVENTORY; HEIGHT; MIXED FOREST; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STAND STRUCTURE; STEREO IMAGE; SUCCESSION; VIGOR;

BAVARIA; GERMANY; TRAUNSTEIN;

EID: 84937439362     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpu050     Document Type: Article

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