Tree species detection accuracies using discrete point lidar and airborne waveform lidar

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 377-403

  Vaughn, Nicholas R ^a   Moskal, L Monika ^a   Turnblom, Eric C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete Fourier transform; Forest inventory; Fullwave lidar; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

BIGLEAF MAPLE; BLACK COTTONWOODS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CONIFER SPECIES; DATA SETS; DETECTION ACCURACY; DISCRETE POINTS; DOUGLAS FIR; FOREST INVENTORY; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HARDWOOD SPECIES; INDIVIDUAL TREE; LIDAR DATA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; RED ALDER; SPECIES CLASSIFICATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVM); TREE SPECIES; WAVE FORMS; WESTERN REDCEDAR;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTICAL RADAR;

FORESTRY;

CLASSIFICATION; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INVENTORY CONTROL; RADAR;

EID: 84857889693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4020377     Document Type: Article

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