%0 Journal Article
%T Identification of the altitudinal limit of woods through object oriented segmentation and validation using GPS survey
%A Alessandro Mognol
%A Gabriele Bitelli
%A Carlo Ferrari
%A Luca Gusella
%J Italian Journal of Remote Sensing
%D 2008
%I 
%X Target of this work is the definition of the upper tree limit and the identification of clumps and isolated trees above it using an object-oriented classification of aerial ortophotos. The case study is related to Mt. Giovo, in the northern Apennines. A check on the field using a GPS system was done over some sample areas to identify coordinates and to create a GPS profile of the upper tree limit and clumps of isolated trees. The goal is to ¡°validate¡± in terms of quality and quantity the information on the features extracted from aerial imagery.
%K Timberline
%K remote sensing
%K image analysis
%K classification
%K GPS
%U http://www.aitjournal.com/articleView.aspx?ID=261