Using high resolution UAV imagery to estimate tree variables in Pinus pinea plantation in Portugal

Forest Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Guerra Hernández, Juan ^a   González Ferreiro, Eduardo ^b,c,d   Sarmento, Alexandre ^e   Silva, João ^a   Nunes, Alexandra ^a   Correia, Alexandra C ^a   Fontes, Luis ^a   Tomé, Margarida ^a   Díaz Varela, Ramón ^b  

^a Universidade de Lisboa   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^e Terradrone INOVISA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

3D image modelling; Canopy height model (CHM); Forest inventory; Object based image analysis (OBIA); Structure from Motion (SfM); Tree crown variables; Unmanned aerial systems (UAS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978817888     PISSN: 21715068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5424/fs/2016252-08895     Document Type: Article

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