Fine-Scale Spatial and Spectral Clustering of UAV-Acquired Digital Aerial Photogrammetric (DAP) Point Clouds for Individual Tree Crown Detection and Segmentation

The field of remote sensing is undergoing rapid changes through the utilization of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology. The rise of this new technology and the corresponding growth in the application of digital aerial photogrammetric point clouds (DAP) require renewed investigation into individual tree detection (ITD) routines; most of which have been developed for airborne laser scanning (ALS) and traditional aerial imagery. This article...