Single tree species classification from Terrestrial Laser Scanning data for forest inventory

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 2144-2150

  Othmani, Ahlem ^a,b   Lew Yan Voon, Lew F C ^a   Stolz, Christophe ^a   Piboule, Alexandre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b Research and Development   (France)

Author keywords

3D geometric texture classification; 3D point cloud flattening; Forest inventory; Single tree species classification

Indexed keywords

3D POINT CLOUD; COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; FOREST INVENTORY; GEOMETRIC TEXTURE; INDIVIDUAL TREE SPECIES CLASSIFICATIONS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; TREE SPECIES;

DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; MEASUREMENTS; RESEARCH; SEEBECK EFFECT; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; TEXTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

CLASSIFICATION; FORESTRY; INSTRUMENTS; RESEARCH; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SURVEYING; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN; TREES;

EID: 84883862499     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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