Narrow-linear and small-area forest disturbance detection and mapping from high spatial resolution imagery

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  He, Yuhong ^a   Franklin, Steven E ^b   Guo, Xuling ^c   Stenhouse, Gordon B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d Alberta Sustainable Resource Development   (Canada)

Author keywords

feature detection; feature extraction and labeling; small forest disturbance; validation

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; MAPPING;

ALBERTA , CANADA; FEATURE DETECTION; FOREST DISTURBANCES; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGERY; MANAGEMENT AREAS; SPURIOUS FEATURES; VALIDATION; WILDLIFE HABITATS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 77957304815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3283905     Document Type: Article

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