An international comparison of individual tree detection and extraction using airborne laser scanning

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 950-974

  Kaartinen, Harri ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Yu, Xiaowei ^a   Vastaranta, Mikko ^b   Hyyppä, Hannu ^c   Kukko, Antero ^a   Holopainen, Markus ^b   Heipke, Christian ^d   Hirschmugl, Manuela ^e   Morsdorf, Felix ^f   Næsset, Erik ^g   Pitkänen, Juho ^h   Popescu, Sorin ⁱ   Solberg, Svein ^j   Wolf, Bernd Michael ^k   Wu, Jee Cheng ^l  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^e JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^h FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

ⁱ TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^k SOLVing3D GmbH   (Germany)

^l NATIONAL ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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Author keywords

3D; Airborne laser scanning; Crown delineation; EuroSDR; Individual tree inventory; ISPRS; Tree detection; Tree extraction

Indexed keywords

3D; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; CROWN DELINEATION; EUROSDR; INDIVIDUAL TREE; ISPRS; TREE EXTRACTION;

EXPERIMENTS; LASER APPLICATIONS; REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; INVENTORIES; LASERS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84861322415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4040950     Document Type: Article

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