Object-based classification of land cover and tree species by integrating airborne LiDAR and high spatial resolution imagery data

Landscape and Ecological Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-171

  Sasaki, Takeshi ^a   Imanishi, Junichi ^a   Ioki, Keiko ^a   Morimoto, Yukihiro ^a   Kitada, Katsunori ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nakanihon Air Service Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decision tree; Land cover classification; Laser scanner; Object based methods; Tree species classification; Warm temperate forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864139501     PISSN: 18601871     EISSN: 1860188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11355-011-0158-z     Document Type: Article

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