Effects of forest structure and airborne laser scanning point cloud density on 3D delineation of individual tree crowns

European Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue , 2016, Pages 337-359

  Kandare, Kaja ^a,b   Ørka, Hans Ole ^b   Chan, Jonathan Cheung Wai ^a,c   Dalponte, Michele ^a  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

3D delineation; Alpine forest; ALS; Forest structure; ITC; Point density

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; LASER APPLICATIONS;

3D DELINEATION; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; ALPINE FOREST; FOREST STRUCTURE; INDIVIDUAL TREE CROWN; POINT DENSITY; TREE CROWN DELINEATION; UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HOMOGENEITY; IMAGING METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; TESTING METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TREE;

EID: 84986910171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22797254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20164919     Document Type: Article

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