Estimation of stand mean crown diameter from high-spatial-resolution imagery based on a geostatistical method

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 363-378

  Feng, Yiming ^a   Li, Zengyuan ^a   Tokola, T ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATED ESTIMATION; GEOSTATISTICAL METHOD; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGERY; PANCHROMATIC BANDS; REFERENCE METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGES; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DIAMETER; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; PANCHROMATIC IMAGE; QUICKBIRD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STAND STRUCTURE; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 77649101800     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160902887867     Document Type: Article

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