Model-Based Estimation of Forest Inventory Attributes Using Lidar: A Comparison of the Area-Based and Semi-Individual Tree Crown Approaches

The use of individual tree detection methods to support forest management inventories has been a research topic for over two decades, but a formal assessment of these methods to produce stand-level and region-level predictions of forest attributes and measures of error is lacking. We employed model-...

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Main Authors: Bryce Frank, Francisco Mauro, Hailemariam Temesgen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-08-01
Series:Remote Sensing
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/16/2525