SLAM-aided stem mapping for forest inventory with small-footprint mobile LiDAR

Forests

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4588-4606

  Tang, Jian ^a,b   Chen, Yuwei ^b,c   Kukko, Antero ^b   Kaartinen, Harri ^b   Jaakkola, Anttoni ^b   Khoramshahi, Ehsan ^b,d   Hakala, Teemu ^b   Hyyppä, Juha ^b   Holopainen, Markus ^d   Hyyppä, Hannu ^e,f  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^f HELSINKI METROPOLIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest inventory; GNSS; IMU; Mobile laser scanning; SLAM

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; MAPPING; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RADAR; ROBOTICS; SCANNING; SURFACE ANALYSIS; TRACKING (POSITION); UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

FOREST INVENTORY; GNSS; IMU; LASER SCANNING; SLAM;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

FOREST INVENTORY; GNSS; LIDAR; MAPPING; POSITIONING;

EID: 84953722210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f6124390     Document Type: Article

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