Classification of spruce and pine trees using active hyperspectral LiDAR

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1138-1141

  Vauhkonen, Jari ^a   Hakala, Teemu ^b   Suomalainen, Juha ^c   Kaasalainen, Sanna ^b   Nevalainen, Olli ^b   Vastaranta, Mikko ^a   Holopainen, Markus ^a   Hyyppa, Juha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Forestry; hyperspectral sensors; laser scanning; LiDAR; tree species classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION FEATURES; HYPERSPECTRAL MEASUREMENTS; HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LASER SCANNING; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; TREE SPECIES;

OPTICAL RADAR;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; LASERS; RADAR; SCANNING; SENSORS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84879959396     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2232278     Document Type: Article

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