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2 April 2018
Forest Research, Tampere University of Technology and Université Grenoble Alpes have been working together to optimize measurements from forest sample plots using terrestrial LiDAR in order to produce more accurate, more detailed, timely and harmonised information that can be fed into national and international forest information systems. This animation shows details of our data processing chain for tree volume and biomass assessments.