Automatic extraction and delineation of single trees from remote sensing data

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 317-330

  Wolf, Bernd Michael ^a   Heipke, Christian ^b  

^a SOLVing3D GmbH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic; Real imagery; Scale space; Snakes; Tree extraction

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE SENSORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING;

REAL IMAGERY; TREE EXTRACTION;

FORESTRY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; TREES;

EID: 34948899773     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-006-0064-9     Document Type: Article

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