Identification of individual trees and canopy shapes using LiDAR data for fire management

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3738-3740

  Loos, Rafael ^a   Niemann, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canopy delineation; Data; Individual tree detection; LiDAR; Raw

Indexed keywords

FIRE PROTECTION; FORESTRY;

CANOPY DELINEATION; INDIVIDUAL TREE DETECTION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

FIRE PROTECTION; FORESTRY; RADAR;

EID: 34948895075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2006.962     Document Type: Conference Paper

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