Unmanned aerial survey of fallen trees in a deciduous broadleaved forest in eastern Japan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Inoue, Tomoharu ^a   Nagai, Shin ^a   Yamashita, Satoshi ^b   Fadaei, Hadi ^a   Ishii, Reiichiro ^a   Okabe, Kimiko ^b   Taki, Hisatomo ^b   Honda, Yoshiaki ^c   Kajiwara, Koji ^c   Suzuki, Rikie ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST; FOREST STRUCTURE; JAPAN; MASKING; PHOTOGRAPHY; TRUNK; AIRCRAFT; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PLANT LEAF; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING; TREE;

AIRCRAFT; BIODIVERSITY; DATA COLLECTION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTS; PLANT LEAVES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 84944808782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109881     Document Type: Article

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