Semi-automating the stand delineation process in mapping natural eucalypt forests

Australian Forestry

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-22

  Haywood, Andrew ^a   Stone, Christine ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b Forest Science Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Classification; Eucalypts; Image analysis; Lasers; Mapping; Methodology; Multi spectral imagery; Remote sensing; Stand characteristics

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA FUSION; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASERS; PHOTOMAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

AERIAL PHOTO INTERPRETATION; BOUNDARY DELINEATION; COMPUTER TECHNIQUES; EUCALYPTS; METHODOLOGY; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY; STAND CHARACTERISTICS;

MAPPING;

EID: 79958752349     PISSN: 00049158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049158.2011.10676341     Document Type: Article

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