Assessment of boreal forest height from WorldView-2 satellite stereo images

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1150-1159

  Persson, Henrik J ^a   Perko, Roland ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; MAPPING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SATELLITES;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; FOREST CONDITIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE IMAGES; TOP HEIGHT ESTIMATION;

STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; BOREAL FOREST; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STAND STRUCTURE; STEREO IMAGE; WORLDVIEW;

REMNINGSTORP; SWEDEN; VASTRA GOTALAND;

EID: 84987856222     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2016.1219424     Document Type: Article

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