Visualization of Computer-Modeled Forests for Forest Management

Abstract
Forest management is a costly and time-consuming activity. Remote sensing has the potential to improve the process by making it cheaper and more efficient, but only if appropriate characteristics can be determined from computer-models. This paper describes the implementation of a forest visualization system and a corresponding user study that tests the accuracy of parameter estimation and forest characterization. The study uses data obtained from field-surveys to generate a computer-modeled forest. Five different stands were tested. Based on the quantitative results obtained, generally, there is no statistically significant difference in parameter estimation when comparing field-recorded videos and computer-generated videos.
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@inproceedings{
:10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis05/183-190
, booktitle = {
EUROVIS 2005: Eurographics / IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization
}, editor = {
Ken Brodlie and David Duke and Ken Joy
}, title = {{
Visualization of Computer-Modeled Forests for Forest Management
}}, author = {
Mohammadi-Aragh, Mahnas Jean
and
Fujisaki, Ikuko
and
Irby, Derek
and
Evans, David
and
Moorhead, Robert
and
Roberts, Scott
}, year = {
2005
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISSN = {
1727-5296
}, ISBN = {
3-905673-19-3
}, DOI = {
/10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis05/183-190
} }
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