Integrating airborne multispectral imagery and airborne LiDAR data for enhanced lithological mapping in vegetated terrain

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 214-226

  Grebby, Stephen ^a   Naden, Jonathan ^b   Cunningham, Dickson ^a   Tansey, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airborne LiDAR; Data integration; Lithological mapping; Multispectral imagery; Self organizing map; Troodos ophiolite

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LIDAR; DATA INTEGRATION; LITHOLOGICAL MAPPING; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; TROODOS OPHIOLITE;

ARID REGIONS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; INFORMATION USE; INTEGRATION; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SECURITY OF DATA; VEGETATION;

PHOTOMAPPING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; ALGORITHM; ARID REGION; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LIDAR; LITHOLOGY; MAPPING METHOD; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PIXEL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 77958106712     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.08.019     Document Type: Article

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