Water surface mapping from airborne laser scanning using signal intensity and elevation data

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1635-1649

  Höfle, Bernhard ^a   Vetter, Michael ^b   Pfeifer, Norbert ^a,c   Mandlburger, Gottfried ^a   Stötter, Johann ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c AlpS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Classification; LiDAR; Rivers; Signal intensity

Indexed keywords

1064 NM; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; ATMOSPHERIC ATTENUATION; AUSTRIA; AUTOMATIC METHOD; BRAIDED RIVER; CLASSIFICATION; CONTOUR LINE; DATA SETS; DEGREE OF AUTOMATION; ELEVATION DATA; FIELD SURVEYS; FLOOD MODELING; GLACIAL RIVERS; LAND AREAS; LASER SHOTS; LIDAR; MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; OBJECT BASED; POINT CLOUD; POINT DENSITY; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; REAL TIME KINEMATIC; REFLECTION CHARACTERISTICS; REGULATED RIVER; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEEDED REGION GROWING; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SIGNAL INTENSITY; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA; TRANSITION ZONES; WATER AREAS; WATER REGIONS; WATER SURFACE;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LANDING; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASERS; MAPPING; OPTICAL RADAR; SCANNING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; WATER;

RIVERS;

BRAIDED RIVER; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LIDAR; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER CHANNEL;

EID: 70349869481     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1853     Document Type: Article

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