A new procedure for identifying single trees in understory layer using discrete LiDAR data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1357-1360

  Kandare, Kaja ^a,b   Dalponte, Michele ^a   Gianelle, Damiano ^a   Chan, Jonathan Cheung Wai ^a,c  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

airborne laser scanning; cluster analysis; delineation; forestry; individual tree crowns

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LASER APPLICATIONS; REMOTE SENSING;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; DELINEATION; FOREST INVENTORY; GROUND TRUTH DATA; INDIVIDUAL TREE CROWN; SUPPRESSED TREES;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84911452879     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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