A benchmark of lidar-based single tree detection methods using heterogeneous forest data from the Alpine Space

Forests

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1721-1747

  Eysn, Lothar ^a   Hollaus, Markus ^a   Lindberg, Eva ^a,b   Berger, Frédéric ^c   Monnet, Jean Matthieu ^c   Dalponte, Michele ^d   Kobal, Milan ^e   Pellegrini, Marco ^f   Lingua, Emanuele ^f   Mongus, Domen ^g   Pfeifer, Norbert ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c Cemagref   (France)

^d RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Alpine space; Co registration; Comparative testing; Forest inventory; Matching; Mountain forests; Single tree extraction

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; LASER APPLICATIONS; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; ALPINE SPACE; COMPARATIVE TESTING; COREGISTRATION; FOREST INVENTORY; MATCHING; MOUNTAIN FORESTS; TREE EXTRACTION;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BENCHMARKING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DETECTION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; HETEROGENEITY; LIDAR; MONTANE FOREST;

FORESTS; INVENTORIES; LASERS; SCANNING;

ALPS;

EID: 84930644601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f6051721     Document Type: Article

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