Feasibility of Google Tango and kinect for crowdsourcing forestry information

Forests

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Virtanen, Juho Pekka ^a,b   Jaakkola, Anttoni ^a   Yu, Xiaowei ^a   Hyyppä, Hannu ^a,b   Liang, Xinlian ^a  

^a FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

DBH; Forestry; Kinect; Laser radar; Mobile laser scanning; Point cloud; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; LASER APPLICATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ANALYSIS; TIMBER; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; KINECT; LASER SCANNING; MANUAL MEASUREMENTS; POINT CLOUD; RED , GREEN AND BLUES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TREE DIAMETER MEASUREMENTS;

FORESTRY;

COMPUTER VISION; DIAMETER; FOREST INVENTORY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNER; STEM;

FORESTRY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING;

EID: 85039780847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f9010006     Document Type: Article

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