A hybrid Clough-Tocher method for surface fitting with application to leaf data

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2582-2595

  Oqielat, M N ^a   Turner, I W ^a   Belward, J A ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clough Tocher method; Finite elements methods; Interpolation; Radial basis function; Virtual leaf

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE CONTROL; CURVE FITTING; EULER EQUATIONS; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MESH GENERATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

A PLANTS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CANOPY STRUCTURES; CLOUGH-TOCHER METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS; FINITE ELEMENTS METHODS; FLOW SOLUTION METHODS; GRID GENERATIONS; HYBRID APPROACHES; HYBRID SURFACES; HYBRID TECHNIQUES; INTEGRAL COMPONENTS; LASER SCANNERS; LEAF SURFACES; LIGHT ENVIRONMENTS; MAIZE CANOPIES; PLANT MODELS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION; SCATTERED DATA INTERPOLATIONS; SCATTERED DATUM; SURFACE FITTINGS; UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND; UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS; VIRTUAL LEAF;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 60249094576     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2008.07.023     Document Type: Article

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