Unconstrained approach for isolating individual trees using high-resolution aerial imagery

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 89-114

  Park, Taejin ^a   Cho, Jung Kil ^a   Lee, Jong Yeol ^a   Lee, Woo Kyun ^a   Choi, Sungho ^b   Kwak, Doo Ahn ^a   Kim, Moon Il ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTENNAS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

CONIFEROUS FORESTS; CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS; FINDING ALGORITHM; HIGH RESOLUTION AERIAL IMAGERY; INDIVIDUAL TREE DETECTIONS; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STATISTICAL MEASURES;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

AIR CRAFT; ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84890942262     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.862603     Document Type: Article

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