Characterizing the height structure and composition of a boreal forest using an individual tree crown approach applied to photogrammetric point clouds

Forests

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3899-3922

  St Onge, Benoît ^a   Audet, Félix Antoine ^a   Bégin, Jean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crown area; Image matching; ITC delineation; Lidar; Photogrammetry; Point cloud; Species; Tree height; View angle

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY;

CROWN AREA; ITC DELINEATION; POINT CLOUD; SPECIES; TREE HEIGHT; VIEW ANGLES;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; LIDAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ABIES; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA;

EID: 84949508366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f6113899     Document Type: Article

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