Forest inventory with terrestrial LiDAR: A comparison of static and hand-held mobile laser scanning

Forests

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Bauwens, Sébastien ^a   Bartholomeus, Harm ^b   Calders, Kim ^c,d   Lejeune, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital elevation model; Forestry; Hand held mobile laser scanning; HMLS; SLAM; Stem mapping; Terrestrial laser scanning; TLS

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; SCANNING; SEEBECK EFFECT; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; THALLIUM;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HMLS; LASER SCANNING; SLAM; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

CROSS SECTION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LIDAR; SATELLITE DATA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 84976309785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f7060127     Document Type: Article

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