aTrunk-an ALS-based trunk detection algorithm

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 9975-9997

  Lamprecht, Sebastian ^a   Stoffels, Johannes ^a   Dotzler, Sandra ^a   Haß, Erik ^a   Udelhoven, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D; Airborne LiDAR; Clustering; Forest; Stem detection; Tree recognition; Trunk orientation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AIRBORNE LIDAR; CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING APPROACH; FOREST; POSITIONING ACCURACY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; TREE RECOGNITION;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84939452146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70809975     Document Type: Article

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