Autonomous collection of forest field reference—The outlook and a first step with UAV laser scanning

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Jaakkola, Anttoni ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Yu, Xiaowei ^a   Kukko, Antero ^a   Kaartinen, Harri ^a   Liang, Xinlian ^a   Hyyppä, Hannu ^b   Wang, Yunsheng ^a  

^a FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

ALS; Autonomous driving; Drone; Forest; Forest inventory; Individual tree; Laser scanning; RPAS; UAV

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; AUTOMATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DRONES; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; SMARTPHONES; SURFACE ANALYSIS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING; FOREST; FOREST INVENTORY; INDIVIDUAL TREE; LASER SCANNING; RPAS;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 85028338691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9080785     Document Type: Article

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