Computer-based synthetic data to assess the tree delineation algorithm from airborne LiDAR survey

GeoInformatica

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-61

  Wang, Lei ^a   Birt, Andrew G ^b   Lafon, Charles W ^b   Cairns, David M ^b   Coulson, Robert N ^b   Tchakerian, Maria D ^b   Xi, Weimin ^c   Popescu, Sorin C ^b   Guldin, James M ^d  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Computers synthetic data; LiDAR; Tree delineation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY;

BIOPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; OPERATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; SIMPLE GEOMETRIC MODELS; SMALL-FOOTPRINT LIDARS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; SYNTHETIC DATA; TREE DELINEATIONS; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ALGORITHM; FOREST INVENTORY; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; RADAR; SIMULATION;

PINUS TAEDA;

EID: 84872263759     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10707-011-0148-1     Document Type: Article

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