Semi-automated forest stand delineation using wavelet based segmentation of very high resolution optical imagery

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn 0, Issue 9783540770572, 2008, Pages 237-256

  Van Coillie, F M B ^a   Verbeke, L P C ^a   De Wulf, R R ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Forest stand delineation; Image segmentation; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE TEXTURE; MAPPING; TEXTURES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AIR PHOTO INTERPRETATION; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT UNITS; FOREST STAND; IMAGE SEGMENTATION PROCESS; MANAGEMENT DECISION-MAKING; SEGMENTATION EVALUATION; WAVELETS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 85008192975     PISSN: 18632246     EISSN: 18632351     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77058-9_13     Document Type: Article

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