Ontology-based classification of building types detected from airborne laser scanning data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1347-1366

  Belgiu, Mariana ^a   Tomljenovic, Ivan ^a   Lampoltshammer, Thomas J ^a,b   Blaschke, Thomas ^a   Höfle, Bernhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b SALZBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Buildings; OBIA; Ontology; Random forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894620489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6021347     Document Type: Article

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