Delineation of tree crowns and tree species classification from full-waveform airborne laser scanning data using 3-d ellipsoidal clustering

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3174-3181

  Lindberg, Eva ^a,b   Eysn, Lothar ^a   Hollaus, Markus ^a   Holmgren, Johan ^a   Pfeifer, Norbert ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Canopy layers; individual trees; light detection and ranging (lidar); single tree detection; three dimensional (3 D) model

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CANOPY LAYER; INDIVIDUAL TREE; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3-D) MODELING; TREE DETECTIONS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ALNUS; PICEA;

EID: 84906946021     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2331276     Document Type: Article

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