A novel method to assess short-term forest cover changes based on digital surface models from image-based point clouds

Forestry

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 429-440

  Wang, Zuyuan ^a   Ginzler, Christian ^a   Waser, Lars T ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; DIGITIZATION; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST COVER; FOREST INVENTORY; HEIGHT; HISTOGRAM; IMAGING METHOD; MODEL TEST; SENSOR; TERRAIN; THRESHOLD;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84943252722     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpv012     Document Type: Article

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