Trends in automatic individual tree crown detection and delineation—Evolution of LiDAR data

Z Zhen, LJ Quackenbush, L Zhang - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Automated individual tree crown detection and delineation (ITCD) using remotely sensed
data plays an increasingly significant role in efficiently, accurately, and completely …

A review of methods for automatic individual tree-crown detection and delineation from passive remote sensing

Y Ke, LJ Quackenbush - International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Efficient forest management demands detailed, timely information. As high spatial resolution
remotely sensed imagery becomes more available, there is a great potential for conducting …

Generating pit-free canopy height models from airborne lidar

A Khosravipour, AK Skidmore… - … & Remote Sensing, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Canopy height models (CHMs) derived from lidar data have been applied to extract forest
inventory parameters. However, variations in modeled height cause data pits, which form a …

Identifying species from the air: UAVs and the very high resolution challenge for plant conservation

S Baena, J Moat, O Whaley, DS Boyd - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The Pacific Equatorial dry forest of Northern Peru is recognised for its unique endemic
biodiversity. Although highly threatened the forest provides livelihoods and ecosystem …

An individual tree crown delineation method based on multi-scale segmentation of imagery

L **g, B Hu, T Noland, J Li - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and …, 2012 - Elsevier
A forest consists of multi-scale branches, tree crowns, and tree clusters. Similar to small tree
crowns in shape and scale, branches normally cause over-segmentation of imagery when a …

A LiDAR-derived canopy density model for tree stem and crown map** in Australian forests

AC Lee, RM Lucas - Remote sensing of environment, 2007 - Elsevier
The retrieval of tree and forest structural attributes from Light Detection and Ranging
(LiDAR) data has focused largely on utilising canopy height models, but these have proved …

Single tree detection in heterogeneous boreal forests using airborne laser scanning and area-based stem number estimates

L Ene, E Næsset, T Gobakken - International journal of remote …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Adaptive single tree detection methods using airborne laser scanning (ALS) data were
investigated and validated on 40 large plots sampled from a structurally heterogeneous …

Automated delineation of individual tree crowns from LiDAR data by multi-scale analysis and segmentation

L **g, B Hu, J Li, T Noland - Photogrammetric Engineering & …, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
A canopy height model (CHM) derived from lidar data can be segmented to obtain individual
tree crowns. However, branches, tree crowns, and tree clusters usually have similar shapes …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of vegetation characteristics on individual tree segmentation methods with airborne LiDAR data

Q Yang, Y Su, S **, M Kelly, T Hu, Q Ma, Y Li, S Song… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
This study investigated the effects of forest type, leaf area index (LAI), canopy cover (CC),
tree density (TD), and the coefficient of variation of tree height (CVTH) on the accuracy of …

A dual growing method for the automatic extraction of individual trees from mobile laser scanning data

L Li, D Li, H Zhu, Y Li - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote …, 2016 - Elsevier
Street trees interlaced with other objects in cluttered point clouds of urban scenes inhibit the
automatic extraction of individual trees. This paper proposes a method for the automatic …