Testing the quality of forest variable estimation using dense image matching: a comparison with airborne laser scanning in a Mediterranean pine forest

Authors :: José Luis Tomé
Juan Carlos Ojeda
Alfredo Fernández-Landa
José Antonio Navarro
María Luz Guillén-Climent
Source :: International Journal of Remote Sensing. 39:4744-4760
Publication Year :: 2018
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 2018.
Abstract: Airborne laser scanning (ALS) is commonly used in forest mapping. Full coverage of ALS is already available in some countries to provide high-detailed terrain elevation models. These kinds of data ...

Subjects :: Estimation
Mediterranean climate
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Laser scanning
Image matching
Pine forest
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
Full coverage
01 natural sciences
Variable (computer science)
Quality (physics)
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Environmental science
021101 geological & geomatics engineering
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Remote sensing

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