Single tree stem profile detection using terrestrial laser scanner data, flatness saliency features and curvature properties

Forests

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Olofsson, Kenneth ^a   Holmgren, Johan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Precision forestry; Single tree detection; Stem profile; Terrestrial laser scanning

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SEEBECK EFFECT; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ANGULAR COORDINATES; COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; CONVEX HULL ALGORITHM; CYLINDRICAL OBJECTS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNERS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; TREE DETECTIONS;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; LASER METHOD; STEM; TREE;

EID: 84990988114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f7090207     Document Type: Article

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