Evaluation of a moving-window algorithm for detecting individual tree stems from scanned aerial photographs in Victoria's eucalypt forests

Australian Forestry

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 226-234

  Lowell, Kim ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0000415941     PISSN: 00049158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049158.1998.10674745     Document Type: Article

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