Towards automatic tree crown detection and delineation in spectral feature space using PCNN and morphological reconstruction

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1705-1708

  Li, Zhengrong ^a   Hayward, Ross ^b   Zhang, Jinglan ^b   Liu, Yuee ^b   Walker, Rodney ^b  

^a Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information ^*  (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Morphological reconstruction; PCNN; Spectral feature; Tree crown delineation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FORESTRY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; REPAIR;

AERIAL IMAGES; AUTOMATED METHODS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; INDIVIDUAL TREE CROWN; MORPHOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION; MULTI-SPECTRAL; OBJECT BASED; PCNN; POST PROCESSING; SPECTRAL FEATURE; TREE CROWNS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AIR CRAFT; ALGORITHMS; CROWNS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951956410     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2009.5413642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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