Identifying tree crown areas in undulating eucalyptus plantations using JSEG multi-scale segmentation and unmanned aerial vehicle near-infrared imagery

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 8-10, 2017, Pages 2296-2312

  Kang, Jun ^a,b   Wang, Li ^a   Chen, Fang ^a   Niu, Zheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PIXELS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE ALGORITHM; EUCALYPTUS PLANTATIONS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING; MULTISCALE SEGMENTATION; NEAR INFRARED IMAGERY; UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION;

INFRARED DEVICES;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOSPERM; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; INFRARED IMAGERY; MORPHOLOGY; PLANTATION; UNMANNED VEHICLE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CHINA; GUANGDONG;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 84994853595     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2016.1253900     Document Type: Article

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