Digital surface model of tree canopy structure from LIDAR data through implicit surface reconstruction

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - ASPRS Annual Conference 2007: Identifying Geospatial Solutions

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 347-358

  Kato, Akira ^a   Schreuder, Gerald F ^a   Calhoun, Donna ^b   Schiess, Peter ^a   Stuetzle, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; CANOPY STRUCTURE; CROWN SHAPE; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; DISCRETE POINTS; FOREST FIRES; INDIVIDUAL TREE; IRREGULAR SHAPE; ISO SURFACE; LEVEL SET METHOD; LIDAR DATA; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; SPATIAL ACCURACY; TREE CANOPY; TREE COMPETITION; TREE LEVEL;

DEFORESTATION; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; REMOTE SENSING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84868617133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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