Abstract:The era of airborne laser scanning (ALS) and the development of new forest inventory methods has reduced the need for field visits and overall inventory costs over the last two decades. Although the development of inventory methods has been considerable, some systematic field visits are usually always required. For example, the most common ALS inventory method, the area-based approach (ABA), leans on field sample plot measurements. Likewise in the ALS inventory, the ABA method can also be used in drone-based i… Show more
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