A nationwide forest attribute map of Sweden predicted using airborne laser scanning data and field data from the National Forest Inventory

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 194, Issue , 2017, Pages 447-454

  Nilsson, Mats ^a   Nordkvist, Karin ^a   Jonzén, Jonas ^a   Lindgren, Nils ^a   Axensten, Peder ^a   Wallerman, Jörgen ^a   Egberth, Mikael ^a   Larsson, Svante ^b   Nilsson, Liselott ^b   Eriksson, Johan ^b   Olsson, Håkan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Forest Agency   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; National forest inventory; Nationwide forest database

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCANNING; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURVEYING;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FOREST COMPANIES; FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANNING; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; NATIONAL MAPPING AGENCIES; PRIVATE FOREST OWNERS;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; BASAL AREA; DATABASE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FOREST COVER; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LASER METHOD; RASTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

SWEDEN;

EID: 85001574879     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.10.022     Document Type: Article

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