A multi-scale approach for delineating individual tree crowns with very high resolution imagery

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 371-378

  Wang, Le ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CONSISTENCY CHECKS; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGERY; INDIVIDUAL TREE CROWN; MARKER-CONTROLLED WATERSHED SEGMENTATION; MULTI-SCALE APPROACHES; ORTHOGONAL WAVELETS; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD SURVEY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WAVELET;

AIR CRAFT; BRANCHES; FORESTRY; IMAGES; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEGMENTATION; TREES; TWIGS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951021187     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.76.4.371     Document Type: Article

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