Analysis of geometric primitives in quantitative structure models of tree stems

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 4581-4603

  Åkerblom, Markku ^a   Raumonen, Pasi ^a   Kaasalainen, Mikko ^a   Casella, Eric ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomass estimation; Error analysis; Shape fitting; Terrestrial laser scanning; Tree modelling

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; GEOMETRY; TOPOLOGY;

BIOMASS ESTIMATION; GEOMETRIC PRIMITIVES; HYBRID APPROACH; MODELLING ERROR; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURES; SHAPE FITTING; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODELLING;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; GEOMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEMS;

EID: 84937899906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70404581     Document Type: Article

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