Multi-source land cover classification for forest fire management based on imaging spectrometry and LiDAR data

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 263-271

  Koetz, B ^a   Morsdorf, F ^a   van der Linden, S ^b   Curt, T ^c   Allgower B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UR EMAX   (France)

Author keywords

Forest fire management; Hyperspectral; Land cover classification; LiDAR; Multi sensor fusion; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLASSIFIERS; DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; FUELS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LANDFORMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; MAPS; NATURAL RESOURCES; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSORS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPACE OPTICS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SURFACES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (PL) PROPERTIES; EARTH'S SURFACE; ELSEVIER (CO); FIRE BEHAVIOUR; FOREST FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRES; FUEL TYPES; GEOMETRIC INFORMATION; HIGH DIMENSIONALITY; IMAGING SPECTROMETRY; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATIONS; LAND COVER MAPPING; LANDSCAPE LEVEL; LIDAR DATA; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING (LIDAR); MULTI-LAYER SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES (SVM) CLASSIFIERS; MULTI-SOURCE; MULTIPLE SOURCES; NON-PARAMETRIC; REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL PATTERNING; SPECTRAL DIMENSIONS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES ((SVM)); THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) STRUCTURING; WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE (WUI);

FIRES;

FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; FUEL; IMAGING METHOD; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECTROMETRY;

AGRICULTURE; DEFORESTATION; FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPS; NATURAL RESOURCES; OPTICS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSORS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACES;

EID: 45849107278     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.04.025     Document Type: Article

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