Automated tree crown detection and delineation in high-resolution digital camera imagery of coniferous forest regeneration

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 82, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 322-334

  Pouliot, D A ^a   King, D J ^a   Bell, F W ^b   Pitt, D G ^c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; CROPS; ERRORS; FORESTRY; VEGETATION;

DIGITAL IMAGERY;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DETECTION METHOD; DIGITAL IMAGE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REGENERATION; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036788890     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00050-0     Document Type: Article

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