EUROVIS 2005: Eurographics / IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization
2005
pp. 183-190

Visualization of Computer-Modeled Forests for Forest Management

Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Ikuko Fujisaki, Derek Irby, David Evans, Robert Moorhead, and Scott Roberts

DOI: 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis05/183-190

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.

Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]: Applications; General Terms: Verification; Additional Keywords and Phrases: Scientific Visualization, Forest Management, Natural Phenomena

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