MAPPING UNDERSTORY TREES USING AIRBORNE DISCRETE-RETURN LIDAR DATA

Understory trees in multi-layer stands are often ignored in forest inventories. Information about them would benefit silviculture, wood procurement and biodiversity management. Cost-efficient inventory methods for the assessment of the presence, density, species- and size-distributions are called fo...

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Main Authors: I. Korpela, A. Hovi, F. Morsdorf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2012-09-01
Series:The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Online Access:https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XXXVIII-4-W19/159/2011/isprsarchives-XXXVIII-4-W19-159-2011.pdf