Segmentation and crown parameter extraction of individual trees in an airborne TomoSAR point cloud

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 40, Issue 3W2, 2015, Pages 205-209

  Shahzad, M ^a   Schmitt, M ^a   Zhu, X X ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Forested areas; Multi aspect; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); TomoSAR point clouds; Trees

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING; PARAMETER EXTRACTION; RADAR IMAGING;

3D RECONSTRUCTION; FOREST REMOTE SENSING; FORESTED AREA; INDIVIDUAL TREE; MULTI ASPECTS; PARAMETERS EXTRACTION; POINT-CLOUDS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOSAR POINT CLOUD; TREE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

RADAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN; TREES;

EID: 84925345206     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-3-W2-205-2015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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