Forest species classification and tree crown delineation using QuickBird imagery

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 359-367

  Ke, Yinghai ^a   Quackenbush, Lindi J ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL IMAGERY; CLASSIFICATION TREES; CONIFEROUS TREES; CRITICAL FACTORS; CROSS VALIDATION; DATA-MINING TOOLS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOGNITION; FOREST CLASSIFICATION; FOREST SPECIES; FOREST STAND; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; IMAGE OBJECTS; INDIVIDUAL TREE; LOCAL MAXIMUM; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; NEW YORK; PANCHROMATIC BANDS; PANCHROMATIC IMAGES; QUICKBIRD; QUICKBIRD IMAGERIES; QUICKBIRD SATELLITE; REMOTE SENSING DATA; RULE-BASED CLASSIFICATION; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SPECIES CLASSIFICATION; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA; TREE CROWN DELINEATION; TREE IDENTIFICATION; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84868625275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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