Assessment of image-based point cloud products to generate a bare earth surface and estimate canopy heights in a woodland ecosystem

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Jensen, Jennifer L R ^a   Mathews, Adam J ^b  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital terrain model; Image based point cloud; Lidar; Structure from motion; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957887802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8010050     Document Type: Article

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