Comparing image-based point clouds and airborne laser scanning data for estimating forest heights

IForest

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 273-280

  Ullah, Sami ^a   Adler, Petra ^b   Dees, Matthias ^a   Datta, Pawan ^a   Weinacker, Holger ^a   Koch, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Forest Research Institute   (Germany)

Author keywords

Canopy Height Model; Enhanced Automatic Terrain Extraction (eATE); Forest Inventory; LiDAR; Semi Global Matching (SGM); Stereo Aerial Photographs

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020049634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19717458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3832/ifor2077-009     Document Type: Article

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