Tree crown detection and delineation in satellite images using probabilistic voting

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 761-770

  Özcan, Abdullah H ^a   Hisar, Dilara ^a   Sayar, Yetkin ^a   Ünsalan, Cem ^a  

^a YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; FARMS; GLOBAL WARMING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ORCHARDS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; STATISTICS;

AUTOMATED METHODS; CROP YIELD FORECASTING; ELLIPSE FITTING METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGES; STATISTICAL INFORMATION; TREE CROWN DELINEATION; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; DETECTION METHOD; GLOBAL WARMING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUMERICAL METHOD; ORCHARD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEGMENTATION; TREE; WATERSHED;

EID: 85034569741     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2017.1322733     Document Type: Article

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