Unmanned aerial systems for precision forest inventory purposes: A review and case study

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 71-81

  Goodbody, Tristan R H ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Marshall, Peter L ^a   Tompalski, Piotr ^a   Crawford, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Spire Aerobotics Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; CANOPY HEIGHT MODELS; FOREST INVENTORY; RESEARCH APPLICATIONS; SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS;

FORESTRY;

AERIAL SURVEY; AIRBORNE SENSING; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MANAGEMENT; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH; NUMERICAL METHOD; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PRECISION; SENSOR; SUSTAINABILITY; TREE; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

FORESTS; INVENTORIES; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85015440658     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc2017-012     Document Type: Article

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