Multisensor Data Fusion for Improved Segmentation of Individual Tree Crowns in Dense Tropical Forests

Detection of Individual Tree Crowns in Airborne Lidar Data

Laser scanning provides a good means to collect information on forest stands. This paper presents an approach to delineate single trees automatically in small footprint light detection and ranging (lidar) data in deciduous and mixed temperate forests. In rasterized laser data possible tree tops are detected with a local maximum filter. Afterwards the crowns are delineated with a combination of ...

A New Method for Multisensor Data Fusion Based on Wavelet Transform in a Chemical Plant

This paper presents a new multi-sensor data fusion method based on the combination of wavelet transform (WT) and extended Kalman filter (EKF). Input data are first filtered by a wavelet transform via Daubechies wavelet “db4” functions and the filtered data are then fused based on variance weights in terms of minimum mean square error. The fused data are finally treated by extended Kalman filter...

Multisensor Data Fusion

Multisensor Data Fusion

IMultisensor data fusion refers to the acquisition, processing and synergistic combination of information gathered by various knowledge sources and sensors to provide a better understanding of a phenomenon. It is a fascinating and rapidly evolving field that has generated a lot of excitement in the research and development community. These concepts are being applied to a wide variety of fields ...

Fusion of Heterogeneous Multisensor Data

One of the main future tasks in the field of reconnaissance and surveillance is the data fusion of heterogeneous systems. For this purpose, sensor data of airborne and spaceborne systems, which acquire the data from the same scene with different spatial and spectral coverage, are used. The employment of different sensors offers the opportunity to take benefit of the specific sensor characterist...