Exploring digital surface models from nine different sensors for forest monitoring and change detection

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Tian, Jiaojiao ^a   Schneider, Thomas ^b   Straub, Christoph ^c   Kugler, Florian ^a   Reinartz, Peter ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Bavarian State Institute of Forestry   (Germany)

Author keywords

Change detection; DSM; Forest heights; LiDAR; Stereo imagery; TanDEM X

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SATELLITES; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; CHANGE DETECTION; CHANGE DETECTION ANALYSIS; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; FOREST HEIGHT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STEREO IMAGERY; TANDEM-X;

FORESTRY;

EID: 85019391917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9030287     Document Type: Article

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