Geometrically explicit description of forest canopy based on 3D triangulations of airborne laser scanning data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 173, Issue , 2016, Pages 248-257

  Vauhkonen, Jari ^a,b   Holopainen, Markus ^b   Kankare, Ville ^b   Vastaranta, Mikko ^b   Viitala, Risto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c HÄME UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alpha shape; Crown architecture; Delaunay triangulation; Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR); Remote sensing; Tree allometry

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; BIOMASS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ECOSYSTEMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURVEYING; TRIANGULATION;

ALPHA-SHAPES; CROWN ARCHITECTURE; DELAU-NAY TRIANGULATIONS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; TREE ALLOMETRY;

FORESTRY;

AERIAL TRIANGULATION; ALLOMETRY; BOREAL FOREST; CALIBRATION; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GEOMETRY; LIDAR; PARAMETERIZATION; RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SHAPE ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

FINLAND;

EID: 84951736457     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.05.009     Document Type: Article

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