Individual tree-crown delineation and treetop detection in high-spatial-resolution aerial imagery

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 351-357

  Wang, Le ^a   Gong, Peng ^a   Biging, Gregory S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INDIVIDUAL TREE CROWN; MARKER-CONTROLLED WATERSHED SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTED IMAGES; TWO STAGE APPROACH; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

FORESTRY;

EID: 21244504049     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.70.3.351     Document Type: Article

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