Forest delineation of aerial images with Gabor wavelets

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2196-2213

  Wang, Zuyuan ^a   Boesch, Ruedi ^a   Ginzler, Christian ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FORESTRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AUTOMATIC APPROACHES; BOUNDARY DELINEATION; CURVATURE FEATURES; DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

GABOR FILTERS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; FOREST COVER; FOREST INVENTORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION; VEGETATION INDEX; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARIES; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; SWITZERLAND; TOPOGRAPHY;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84863244351     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.608087     Document Type: Article

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