Contextual classification of full waveform lidar data in the wadden sea

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1614-1618

  Schmidt, Alena ^a   Niemeyer, Joachim ^a   Rottensteiner, Franz ^a   Soergel, Uwe ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; coast; conditional random fields (CRFs); lidar; random forests (RFs)

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; DECISION TREES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL RADAR; RANDOM PROCESSES;

AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA; CLASSIFICATION FEATURES; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS(CRFS); CONTEXTUAL CLASSIFICATION; NEIGHBORING POINT; RANDOM FORESTS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84899971791     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2302317     Document Type: Article

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