Comparison of laser and stereo optical, SAR and InSAR point clouds from air- and space-borne sources in the retrieval of forest inventory attributes

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 15933-15954

  Yu, Xiaowei ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Karjalainen, Mika ^a   Nurminen, Kimmo ^a   Karila, Kirsi ^a   Vastaranta, Mikko ^b   Kankare, Ville ^b   Kaartinen, Harri ^a   Holopainen, Markus ^b   Honkavaara, Eija ^a   Kukko, Antero ^a   Jaakkola, Anttoni ^a   Liang, Xinlian ^a   Wang, Yunsheng ^a   Hyyppä, Hannu ^c   Katoh, Masato ^d  

^a FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D technique; Airborne laser scanning; Forest inventory; InSAR; Photogrammetry; Point cloud; Radargrammetry

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; SCANNING; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

3D TECHNIQUE; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; FOREST INVENTORY; INSAR; POINT CLOUD; RADARGRAMMETRY;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 85006075942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71215809     Document Type: Article

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