Forest stand delineation from lidar point-clouds using local maxima of the crown height model and region merging of the corresponding Voronoi cells

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 268-276

  Olofsson, Kenneth ^a   Holmgren, Johan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; REMOTE SENSING;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNERS; AUTOMATIC METHOD; CROWN HEIGHT; LOCAL MAXIMUM; POINT-CLOUDS; REGION-MERGING; SEGMENTATION METHODS; VORONOI CELL;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; DATA SET; FOREST; HEIGHT; LASER; LIDAR; SCANNER; STAND STRUCTURE;

FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84897829116     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2014.900203     Document Type: Article

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