Automatic forest species classification using combined lidar data and optical imagery

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Zhang, Wen ^a   Hu, Baoxin ^a   Jing, Linhai ^a   Woods, Murray E ^b   Courville, Paul ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c Canadian Ecology Centre Forestry Research Partnership   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automatic classification; Crown delineation; LIDAR; Multi spectral imagery; Segmentation; Tree identification; Tree species

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; CROWN DELINEATION; LIDAR; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; SEGMENTATION; TREE IDENTIFICATION; TREE SPECIES;

AUTOMATIC INDEXING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION; FORESTRY; IDENTIFICATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SEGMENTATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TREES;

EID: 67649817981     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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