A versatile, production-oriented approach to high-resolution tree-canopy mapping in urban and suburban landscapes using GEOBIA and data fusion

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12837-12865

  O'Neil Dunne, Jarlath ^a   MacFaden, Sean ^a   Royar, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Ecognition; Geographic object based image analysis; LiDAR; Multispectral imagery; Tree canopy; Urban; Urban tree canopy (UTC) assessment; UTC assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920071188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61212837     Document Type: Article

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