Comparison of canopy volume measurements of scattered eucalypt farm trees derived from high spatial resolution imagery and LiDAR

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Verma, Niva Kiran ^a   Lamb, David W ^a   Reid, Nick ^a   Wilson, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canopy volume; Farmscape; LiDAR

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

CANOPY VOLUME; FARMSCAPE; HIGH RESOLUTION DATA; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGERY; PARAMETER MEASUREMENT; PARAMETERS ESTIMATION; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84971474764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8050388     Document Type: Article

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