Automated 3D forest surface model extraction from balloon stereo photographs

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-35

  Kushida, Keiji ^a   Yoshino, Kunihiko ^b   Nagano, Toshihide ^c   Ishida, Tomoyasu ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTOGRAPHY; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; EXTRACTION METHOD; FIELD MEASUREMENT; IMAGE CORRELATIONS; PEAT SWAMP FORESTS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHS; SURFACE MODELING;

STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

AUTOMATION; BALLOON OBSERVATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIELD METHOD; PHOTOGRAPH; REMOTE SENSING; SWAMP FOREST; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ASIA; EURASIA; NARATHIWAT; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHERN REGION; THAILAND;

EID: 58449107658     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.75.1.25     Document Type: Article

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