An improved tree crown delineation method based on live crown ratios from airborne LiDAR data

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 402-419

  Fang, Fang ^a,b   Im, Jungho ^a   Lee, Junghee ^a   Kim, Kyoungmin ^c  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c National Institute of Forest Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

crown ratios; LiDAR; region growing; tree crown delineation; watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; FOREST INVENTORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIDAR; REMOTE SENSING; SEGMENTATION;

KANGWON; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 84961216847     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15481603.2016.1158774     Document Type: Article

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