Accuracy of kinematic positioning using global satellite navigation systems under forest canopies

Forests

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3218-3236

  Kaartinen, Harri ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Vastaranta, Mikko ^b   Kukko, Antero ^a,c   Jaakkola, Anttoni ^a   Yu, Xiaowei ^a   Pyörälä, Jiri ^a   Liang, Xinlian ^a   Liu, Jingbin ^a   Wang, Yungshen ^a   Kaijaluoto, Risto ^a   Melkas, Timo ^d   Holopainen, Markus ^b   Hyyppä, Hannu ^c  

^a FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d Metsäteho Oy ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Forest inventory; Forest mapping; Forest technology; GNSS; Harvester; Positioning

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; HARVESTERS; KINEMATICS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OFF ROAD VEHICLES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SATELLITES; TRACKING (POSITION); UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MAPPING; FOREST TECHNOLOGY; GNSS; POSITIONING;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; FOREST COVER; FOREST INVENTORY; GEODETIC NETWORK; GNSS; KINEMATICS; POSITIONING SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM STEBBENSI VIRUS;

EID: 84946574117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f6093218     Document Type: Article

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