Towards automated segmentation of forest inventory polygons on high spatial resolution satellite imagery

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 221-230

  Wulder, Michael A ^a,b   White, Joanne C ^a   Hay, Geoffrey J ^c   Castilla, Guillermo ^c  

^a PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b University of Calgary ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automation; Forest inventory; High spatial resolution satellite; IKONOS; Object; Photo interpretation; Segmentation; Stand delineation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SATELLITES;

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED; FOREST INVENTORY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; IKONOS; OBJECT; PANCHROMATIC DATA;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AUTOMATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOREST INVENTORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 57649196384     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc84221-2     Document Type: Article

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