Forest inventories by LiDAR data: A comparison of single tree segmentation and metric-based methods for inventories of a heterogeneous temperate forest

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 42, Issue , 2015, Pages 162-174

  Latifi, Hooman ^a   Fassnacht, Fabian E ^b   Müller, Jörg ^c   Tharani, Agalya ^d   Dech, Stefan ^a,e   Heurich, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

^d ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Area based method; Forest structure inventory; Landscape level management; LiDAR; Single tree segment based method; Spatial model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOREST INVENTORY; LANDSCAPE PROTECTION; LIDAR; NATIONAL PARK; SILVICULTURE; SPATIAL PLANNING; TEMPERATE FOREST;

BAVARIA; BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK; CENTRAL EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 84943604192     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2015.06.008     Document Type: Article

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