Detection of single standing dead trees from aerial color infrared imagery by segmentation with shape and intensity priors

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 3W4, 2015, Pages 181-188

  Polewski, P ^a,b   Yao, W ^a   Heurich, M ^c   Krzystek, P ^a   Stilla, U ^b  

^a MUNICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active contours; Aerial CIR imagery; Dead tree detection; Level sets; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85058894400     PISSN: 21949042     EISSN: 21949050     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5194/isprsannals-II-3-W4-181-2015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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