A new approach to calculate Plant Area Density (PAD) using 3D ground-based LiDAR

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 10005, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Taheriazad, Leila ^a   Moghadas, Hamid ^a   Sanchez Azofeifa, Arturo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest economy; Leaf; Light detection and ranging (LiDAR); Plant area density (PAD); Plant area index (PAI); Remote sensing; Resource management; Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS); Voxelization; Wood

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; WOOD;

FOREST ECONOMY; LEAF; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; PLANT AREAS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; VOXELIZATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

DETECTION; FORESTS; LEAVES; LIGHT; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; WOOD;

EID: 85010755620     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2241867     Document Type: Conference Paper

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