Individual tree species classification by illuminated-Shaded area separation

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-35

  Puttonen, Eetu ^a   Litkey, Paula ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^a  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aerial; Classification; Forestry; Fusion; Imagery; LIDAR; Multispectral

Indexed keywords

AERIAL; AERIAL IMAGES; CANOPY HEIGHT MODELS; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; COLOUR VALUE; DATA SETS; FEATURE EXTRACTION METHODS; IMAGERY; INDIVIDUAL TREE; MULTI-SPECTRAL; POINT CLOUD; SPECIES CLASSIFICATION; SUN POSITION; TREE CROWNS; TREE SPECIES;

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR; PLANT EXTRACTS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

AIR CRAFT; CLASSIFICATION; DETECTION; EXTRACTION; EXTRACTIVES; FORESTRY; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; PLANTS; RADAR; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 77957294387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2010019     Document Type: Article

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