Area-based approach for mapping and monitoring riverine vegetation using mobile laser scanning

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5285-5303

  Saarinen, Ninni ^a,b   Vastaranta, Mikko ^b   Vaaja, Matti ^c   Lotsari, Eliisa ^a   Jaakkola, Anttoni ^d   Kukko, Antero ^d   Kaartinen, Harri ^d   Holopainen, Markus ^b   Hyyppä, Hannu ^c,e   Alho, Petteri ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e HELSINKI METROPOLIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

Author keywords

Change detection; LiDAR; Mobile laser scanning (MLS); River bank; riverine environment; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; LASER SCANNING; NEAREST-NEIGHBORS; RIVER BANK; RIVERINE ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION DENSITY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

LASER APPLICATIONS; MAPPING; OPTICAL RADAR; RIVERS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84884366746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5105285     Document Type: Article

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