Estimating stand density, biomass and tree species from very high resolution stereo-imagery-towards an all-in-one sensor for forestry applications?

Forestry

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 613-631

  Fassnacht, Fabian Ewald ^a   Mangold, Daniel ^a   Schäfer, Jannika ^a   Immitzer, Markus ^b   Kattenborn, Teja ^a   Koch, Barbara ^c   Latifi, Hooman ^d  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AIRBORNE SENSING; BIOMASS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIDAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STAND STRUCTURE;

EID: 85034403291     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpx014     Document Type: Article

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