Automated forest structure mapping from high resolution imagery based on directional semivariogram estimates

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 82-95

  St Onge, Benoît A ^a   Cavayas, François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

AUTOMATED FOREST STRUCTURE MAPPING; SEMIVARIOGRAM ESTIMATES;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHM; FOREST STRUCTURE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAPPING; SEMIVARIOGRAM; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 0031177940     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00242-8     Document Type: Article

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