Nationwide airborne laser scanning based models for volume, biomass and dominant height in Finland

Silva Fennica

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Kotivuori, Eetu ^a   Korhonen, Lauri ^a   Packalen, Petteri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Area based approach; Calibration; Forest inventory; LIDAR; Mixed effect models; Regression analysis; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CALIBRATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AREA-BASED; DOMINANT HEIGHT; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST STRUCTURE; MIXED-EFFECT MODELS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AIRBORNE SENSOR; CALIBRATION; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST INVENTORY; LASER METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; LIDAR; MODEL VALIDATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; STEM;

FINLAND; LAPPI [FINLAND]; TORNIO;

EID: 84984870493     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: 22424075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.1567     Document Type: Article

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