Estimating tree heights with images from an unmanned aerial vehicle

Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 1144-1156

  Birdal, Anıl Can ^a   Avdan, Uğur ^b   Türk, Tarık ^a  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

consumer grade cameras; image processing; local maximum filter; photogrammetry; tree height detection; Unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLES;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; GROUND SAMPLING DISTANCES; HIGH-RESOLUTION AERIAL IMAGES; LOCAL MAXIMUM; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TREE HEIGHT; TREE HEIGHT MEASUREMENTS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 85015665328     PISSN: 19475705     EISSN: 19475713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19475705.2017.1300608     Document Type: Article

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