Linear Models for Airborne-Laser-Scanning-Based Operational Forest Inventory With Small Field Sample Size and Highly Correlated LiDAR Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5600-5612

  Junttila, Virpi ^a   Kauranne, Tuomo ^a,b   Finley, Andrew O ^c   Bradford, John B ^d  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Arbonaut Ltd   (Finland)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian linear model; Model based forest inventory; Regularization; Sampling design; Singular value decomposition (SVD)

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; FOREST INVENTORY; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; LINEAR MODELING; OPERATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; REGULARIZATION; SAMPLING DESIGN;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; FOREST INVENTORY; LIDAR; LINEAR PROGRAMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECISION; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING;

FORESTS; INVENTORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 85027941655     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2425916     Document Type: Article

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