Training-free Urban Tree Counting with Multi-modal data

Xu, Zhengsen; Wang, Lanying; He, Hongjie; Guan, Haiyan; Ma, Lingfei; Li, Jonathan; Xu, Lincoln Linlin

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Training-free Urban Tree Counting with Multi-modal data

Zhengsen Xu, Lanying Wang, Hongjie He, Haiyan Guan, Lingfei Ma, Jonathan Li, and Lincoln Linlin Xu

Zhengsen Xu

Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Lanying Wang

Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Hongjie He

Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Haiyan Guan

School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

Lingfei Ma

School of Statistics and Mathematics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing , China

Jonathan Li

Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Lincoln Linlin Xu

Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

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