In-situ measurements from mobile platforms: An emerging approach to address the old challenges associated with forest inventories

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 143, Issue , 2018, Pages 97-107

  Liang, Xinlian ^a,b   Kukko, Antero ^a,b,c   Hyyppä, Juha ^a,b   Lehtomäki, Matti ^a,b   Pyörälä, Jiri ^a,b   Yu, Xiaowei ^a,b   Kaartinen, Harri ^a   Jaakkola, Anttoni ^a,b   Wang, Yunsheng ^a,b  

^a FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b ACADEMY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest inventories; In situ; Mobile; Mobile laser scanning; Personal laser scanning; Terrestrial laser scanning; Terrestrial point cloud; Wearable

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; MOBILE PHONES; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

FOREST INVENTORY; LASER SCANNING; MOBILE; POINT CLOUD; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; WEARABLE;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

DATA QUALITY; FOREST INVENTORY; HETEROGENEITY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; POSITIONING SYSTEM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH WORK; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE LASER RANGING;

EID: 85048767494     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2018.04.019     Document Type: Article

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