Identifying tree crown delineation shapes and need for remediation on high resolution imagery using an evidence based approach

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 114, Issue , 2016, Pages 206-227

  Leckie, Donald G ^a   Walsworth, Nicholas ^a   Gougeon, François A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest inventory; Individual tree crown; Local maxima; Morphological primitives; Shape characterization; Template matching

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FORESTRY; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

FOREST INVENTORY; INDIVIDUAL TREE CROWN; LOCAL MAXIMUM; MORPHOLOGICAL PRIMITIVES; SHAPE CHARACTERIZATION;

POLLUTION;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DECISION MAKING; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; SHAPE ANALYSIS; TREE;

EID: 84959423216     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2016.02.005     Document Type: Article

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