Automated Individual Tree Isolation on High-Resolution Imagery: Possible Methods for Breaking Isolations Involving Multiple Trees

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

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 3229-3248

  Leckie, Donald G ^a   Walsworth, Nicholas ^a   Gougeon, François A ^a   Gray, Stephen ^a   Johnson, David ^a   Johnson, Laura ^a   Oddleifson, Kathleen ^a   Plotsky, Derrick ^a   Rogers, Victoria ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest inventory; high resolution imagery; individual tree crown; local maxima; morphological primitives; remediation; rules based system; template matching

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; IMAGE MATCHING; TEMPLATE MATCHING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CROWN DELINEATION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY; INDIVIDUAL TREE; INDIVIDUAL TREE CROWN; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; MULTIPLE TREES; SET OF RULES;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; FOREST INVENTORY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84966311933     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2544109     Document Type: Article

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