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Geospatial Techniques for Managing Environmental Resources pp 188–200Cite as

Urban Tree Detection Using Mobile Laser Scanning Data

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Nearly half of the world's population (47 per cent) lives in urban areas and is expected to grow by two per cent per year during 2000-15 (UN, 2001). Urban trees are essential data sets for studies on urban biomass, ecological function, water budgets and radiation transfer in an urban system. Furthermore, it is also useful for 3D cadastre and 3D city models used by planners and environmentalists for planning, modelling and ecological assessments of the city.

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Acknowledgement

We would like to thank Optech and Euro SDR for providing data for this research. The authors are also thankful to Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Universiteit Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, especially Geoinformatics department, for overall research arrangements and valuable advice during the study.

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  1. ITT, Cologne University of Applied Science, Cologne, Germany

    Arun Kumar Pratihast

  2. Center for Geo-information, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Arun Kumar Pratihast

  3. Department of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, Institute of Geosciences, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany

    Jay Krishna Thakur

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  1. Department of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology Institute of Geosciences and Geography, Martin Luther University, Halle, Saale, Germany

    Jay Krishna Thakur  & Wolfgang Gossel  & 

  2. Centre of Atmospheric and Ocean Science KBCAOS, IIDS, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India

    Sudhir Kumar Singh

  3. School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

    AL. Ramanathan

  4. Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA

    M. Bala Krishna Prasad

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Pratihast, A.K., Thakur, J.K. (2011). Urban Tree Detection Using Mobile Laser Scanning Data. In: Thakur, J.K., Singh, S.K., Ramanathan, A., Prasad, M.B.K., Gossel, W. (eds) Geospatial Techniques for Managing Environmental Resources. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1858-6_12

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