Extraction of tree crowns from high resolution imagery over Eucalypt dominant tropical savannas

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 813-824

  Whiteside, Timothy G ^a   Boggs, Guy S ^b   Maler, Stefan W ^b  

^a BATCHELOR INSTITUTE OF INDIGENOUS TERTIARY EDUCATION   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AUTOMATED SEEDS; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; INHERENT CHARACTERISTICS; LANDSCAPE INFORMATION; QUICKBIRD DATUM; TREE CROWN DELINEATION; TREE DISTRIBUTION;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; DOMINANCE; EVERGREEN TREE; IMAGERY; LANDSCAPE; PLANT EXTRACT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; QUICKBIRD; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SAVANNA; SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION COVER;

EXTRACTIVES; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 80051906298     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.77.8.813     Document Type: Article

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