Object-oriented classification of forest structure from light detection and ranging data for stand mapping

Western Journal of Applied Forestry

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 198-204

  Sullivan, Alicia A ^b   McGaughey, Robert J ^a   Andersen, Hans Erik ^a   Schiess, Peter ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest classification; LIDAR; Light detection and ranging; Object oriented image segmentation; Stand mapping; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FORESTRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION USE; OBJECT DETECTION; OPTICAL RADAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

FOREST CLASSIFICATION; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; OBJECT ORIENTED; STAND MAPPING; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

MAPPING;

CLASSIFICATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; RADAR; SATELLITES;

EID: 73949138929     PISSN: 08856095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wjaf/24.4.198     Document Type: Article

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