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卷 4, 期 5, 页码 465-474出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2012.749361
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- US Department of Energy through LANL LDRD DR research grant
We tested an automated multi-scale approach for detecting individual trees and estimating tree crown geometry using high spatial resolution satellite imagery. Individual tree crowns are identified as local extrema points in the Laplacian-of-Gaussian scale-space pyramid that is constructed based on linear scale-space theory. The approach simultaneously detects tree crown centres and estimates tree crown sizes (radiuses). We evaluated our method using two 0.6-m resolution QuickBird images of a forest site that underwent a large shift in tree density between image captures due to drought-associated mortality. The automated multi-scale approach produced tree count estimates with an accuracy of 54% and 73% corresponding to the dense and sparse forests, respectively. Estimated crown diameters were linearly correlated with field-measured crown diameters (r = 0.730.86). Tree count accuracies and size estimates were comparable with alternative methods. Future use of the presented approach is merited based on the results of our study, but requires further investigation in a broader range of forest types.
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