An individual tree crown delineation method based on multi-scale segmentation of imagery

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 70, Issue , 2012, Pages 88-98

  Jing, Linhai ^a,b   Hu, Baoxin ^a   Noland, Thomas ^c   Li, Jili ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

^c ONTARIO FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Extraction; Forestry; Imagery; Multiresolution; Remote sensing; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AERIAL IMAGERY; GAUSSIAN FILTERS; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; HIGH QUALITY; IMAGERY; INDIVIDUAL TREE CROWN; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; MULTI-SCALE FILTERING; MULTIPLE SEGMENTATION; MULTISCALE SEGMENTATION; MULTISCALES; OPTICAL IMAGERY; OVER SEGMENTATION; TREE CROWN DELINEATION; TREE CROWNS; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REMOTE SENSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FORESTRY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; GAUSSIAN METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WATERSHED;

AIR CRAFT; EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN;

EID: 84861056045     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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