Vertical height errors in digital terrain models derived from airborne laser scanner data in a boreal-alpine ecotone in Norway

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 4702-4725

  Næsset, Erik ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

ALS; Boreal alpine ecotone; DTM; Monitoring; Tree line; Tree migration

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ERRORS; LANDFORMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MONITORING; ROCK MECHANICS; STATISTICS; VEGETATION;

ALS; BOREAL-ALPINE ECOTONE; DTM; TREE LINE; TREE MIGRATION;

FORESTRY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 84937827159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70404702     Document Type: Article

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