Evaluating the performance of high-altitude aerial image-based digital surface models in detecting individual tree crowns in mature boreal forests

Forests

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Tanhuanpää, Topi ^a,b   Saarinen, Ninni ^a,b   Kankare, Ville ^a,b   Nurminen, Kimmo ^b   Vastaranta, Mikko ^a,b   Honkavaara, Eija ^b   Karjalainen, Mika ^b   Yu, Xiaowei ^b   Holopainen, Markus ^a,b   Hyyppä, Juha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aerial images; Forest inventory; Forest mensuration; Photogrammetric point cloud; Remote sensing; Tree detection

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

AERIAL IMAGES; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; FOREST INVENTORY; GROUND SAMPLE DISTANCES; INDIVIDUAL TREE CROWN; POINT CLOUD; TREE DETECTIONS; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BOREAL FOREST; CANOPY; FOREST INVENTORY; IMAGERY; MODELING; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TREE;

EID: 84982830466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f7070143     Document Type: Article

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