Probabilistic detection of morphologic indicators for beach segmentation with multitemporal LiDAR measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 11 PART2, 2012, Pages 4759-4770

  Starek, Michael J ^a   Vemula, Raghav ^b   Slatton, K Clint ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ESRI   (United States)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Divergence; light detection and ranging (LiDAR); pattern classification; shoreline erosion

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; DATA VISUALIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SHORE PROTECTION; SURVEYS;

BEACH MONITORING; CLASS SEPARABILITY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIVERGENCE; FIRST-ORDER; INFORMATION DIVERGENCE; LIDAR DATA; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MULTI-TEMPORAL; NAIVE BAYES CLASSIFIERS; PARAMETERIZED; PARZEN WINDOWING; PERFORMANCE STABILITY; SHORELINE CHANGE; SHORELINE EROSION; SURFACE FEATURE; TOPOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

BEACH; BEACH EROSION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LIDAR; MONITORING; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; SEGMENTATION; SHORELINE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84869503972     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2191559     Document Type: Article

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