TanDEM-X for Large-Area Modeling of Urban Vegetation Height: Evidence from Berlin, Germany

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1876-1887

  Schreyer, Johannes ^a   Geiß, Christian ^b   Lakes, Tobia ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital elevation model (DEM); digital terrain model (DTM); morphological filters (MFs); normalized digital surface model (nDSM); Tandem X; trees; UltraCamX; urban vegetation

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; SURVEYING;

BERLIN , GERMANY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; PROGRESSIVE MORPHOLOGICAL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN VEGETATION; VEGETATION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION HEIGHT;

VEGETATION;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; HEIGHT; MODELING; TANDEM-X; TREE; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION;

BERLIN; GERMANY;

EID: 84957623232     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2508660     Document Type: Article

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