TY - T1 - Automated matching of multiple terrestrial laser scans for stem mapping without the use of artificial references SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/224194 T3 - A1 - Liu, Jingbin; Liang, Xinlian; Hyyppä, Juha; Yu, Xiaowei; Lehtomäki, Matti; Pyörälä, Jiri; Zhu, Lingli; Wang, Yunsheng; Chen, Ruizhi A2 - PB - Y1 - 2017 LA - eng AB - Terrestrial laser scanning has been widely used to analyze the 3D structure of a forest in detail and to generate data at the level of a reference plot for forest inventories without destructive measurements. Multi-scan terrestrial laser scanning is more commonly applied to collect plot-level data so that all of the stems can be detected and analyzed. However, it is necessary to match the point clouds of multiple scans to yield a point cloud with automated processing. Mismatches between datasets... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - Terrestrial laser scanning; Registration; Scan matching; Laser scanning; Stem mapping; Boreal forest; POINT CLOUDS; STANDING TREES; REGISTRATION; FOREST; LIDAR; SURFACES; ACCURACY; 1171 Geosciences N1 - PP - ER -