Accuracy of Structure from Motion models in comparison with terrestrial laser scanner for the analysis of DBH and height influence on error behaviour

Journal of Forest Science

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 357-365

  Panagiotidis, D ^a   Surovy P ^a   Kuzelka K ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Hand held digital camera; Image segmentation; Photogrammetry; Point cloud; Stem optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL CAMERAS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; MOTION ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCANNING; VIDEO CAMERAS;

DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; HEIGHT ABOVE GROUND; POINT CLOUD; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNERS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

ERRORS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAMETER; DIGITAL IMAGE; HEIGHT; LASER METHOD; MODEL TEST; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION; STEM;

EID: 84988905503     PISSN: 12124834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17221/92/2015-JFS     Document Type: Article

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