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Forest stand delineation from lidar point-clouds using local maxima of the crown height model and region merging of the corresponding Voronoi cells

Kenneth OlofssonDepartment of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Johan HolmgrenDepartment of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
Pages 268-276 | Received 13 Dec 2013, Accepted 26 Feb 2014, Published online: 14 Mar 2014

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