Detection of individual tree crowns in airborne lidar data

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 357-363

  Koch, Barbara ^a   Heyder, Ursula ^a   Welnacker, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING;

CROWN PROJECTIONS; DECIDUOUS TREES; LIDAR DATA; TREE CROWNS;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FILTER; FOOTPRINT; LASER; LIDAR; SEGMENTATION; TEMPERATE FOREST; VECTOR;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING;

EID: 33645801594     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.72.4.357     Document Type: Review

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