Study of morphological crown control in LiDAR-derived canopy height model

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 5927-5930

  Zhao, Dan ^a   Pang, Yong ^a   Li, Zengyuan ^a   Bai, Lina ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Canopy height model; crown control; LiDAR; morphological closing

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL CHANGE; CANOPY HEIGHT MODELS; CROWN AREA; CROWN CONTROL; FOREST PARAMETERS; LIDAR APPLICATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL CLOSING; NEGATIVE INFLUENCE;

GEOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84873157812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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