A sun-crown-sensor model and adapted C-correction logic for topographic correction of high resolution forest imagery

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 96, Issue , 2014, Pages 94-105

  Fan, Yuanchao ^a   Koukal, Tatjana ^b   Weisberg, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Canopy shadowing; Diffuse radiation; IKONOS; Moving window; Radiometric correction; Topographic roughness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CIRCUITS; FORESTRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFRARED DEVICES; LANDFORMS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOPOGRAPHY; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

CANOPY SHADOWING; DIFFUSE RADIATION; IKONOS; MOVING WINDOW; RADIOMETRIC CORRECTIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC ROUGHNESS;

PIXELS;

CORRECTION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FOREST CANOPY; IKONOS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IRRADIANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; CANOPY; LIDAR; NEAR INFRARED; PARTITIONING; RADIANCE; REMOTE SENSING; TERRAIN;

FOREST CANOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIATION; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES;

EID: 84905385224     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.07.005     Document Type: Article

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