Reconstruction of individual trees from multi-aspect TomoSAR data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 165, Issue , 2015, Pages 175-185

  Schmitt, Michael ^a   Shahzad, Muhammad ^a   Zhu, Xiao Xiang ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Forested areas; Multi aspect; Point cloud segmentation; SAR tomography; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Trees

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

3D RECONSTRUCTION; FORESTED AREA; MULTI ASPECTS; POINT CLOUD SEGMENTATION; SAR TOMOGRAPHY (SARTOM); TREES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA SET; DECIDUOUS TREE; LIDAR; RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; IMAGES; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84929581418     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.05.012     Document Type: Article

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