Assessing 3D point clouds from aerial photographs for species-specific forest inventories

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 68-79

  Puliti, Stefano ^a   Gobakken, Terje ^a   Ørka, Hans Ole ^a   Næsset, Erik ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

airborne laser scanning; Dirichlet regression; photogrammetry; species proportions; Species specific forest management inventory

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; DIRICHLET; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPECIES PROPORTIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84969781297     PISSN: 02827581     EISSN: 16511891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02827581.2016.1186727     Document Type: Article

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