Inventory of small forest areas using an unmanned aerial system

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 9632-9654

  Puliti, Stefano ^a   Ørka, Hans Ole ^a   Gobakken, Terje ^a   Næsset, Erik ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Area based approach; Forest inventory; Photogrammetry; Structure from motion; UAS

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

ADAPTIVE PLANNING; AREA-BASED; FOREST INVENTORY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); UAS; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS;

FORESTRY;

FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVENTORY CONTROL; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN;

EID: 84939439873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70809632     Document Type: Article

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