Accuracy of reconstruction of the tree stem surface using terrestrial close-range photogrammetry

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Surový, Peter ^a   Yoshimoto, Atsushi ^b   Panagiotidis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Stem surface; Stem volume; Terrestrial photogrammetry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DIGITAL CAMERAS; FORESTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER APPLICATIONS; MOTION ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SURFACE ANALYSIS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; CLOSE RANGE PHOTOGRAMMETRY; GEOMETRICAL DISTORTION; STEM SURFACES; STEM VOLUME; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; TERRESTRIAL PHOTOGRAMMETRIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) OBJECTS;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84962601846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8020123     Document Type: Article

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