Dense Canopy Height Model from a low-cost photogrammetric platform and LiDAR data

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1287-1301

  Herrero Huerta, Mónica ^a   Felipe García, Beatriz ^b   Belmar Lizarán, Soledad ^c   Hernández López, David ^c   Rodríguez Gonzálvez, Pablo ^a   González Aguilera, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b Castilla La Mancha Regional Government   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Dense Canopy Height Model; LiDAR; Low cost platform; Photogrammetry; Radiometric segmentation

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA FUSION; LANDFORMS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETRY;

CORRECTION MODELS; DENSE CANOPY; GEOREFERENCING; LOW COSTS; LOW-COST FLIGHTS; SEGMENTATION PROCESS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TERRAIN DATA;

PHOTOGRAMMETRY;

EID: 84959156019     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-016-1366-9     Document Type: Article

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