Delineation of individual tree crowns from ALS and hyperspectral data: A comparison among four methods

European Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 365-382

  Dalponte, Michele ^a   Reyes, Francesco ^a   Kandare, Kaja ^a   Gianelle, Damiano ^a  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning data; Biomass estimation; Hyperspectral data; Individual tree crowns delineation

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; BIOMASS ESTIMATION; HYPERSPECTRAL; HYPERSPECTRAL DATA; INDIVIDUAL TREE CROWN; POINT CLOUD; REGION GROWING; TREE DETECTIONS;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; BIOMASS; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

CROWNS; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER PAPERS;

ALPS; ITALY;

EID: 84938813239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22797254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20154821     Document Type: Article

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