Radiometric correction and normalization of airborne LiDAR intensity data for improving land-cover classification

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 7658-7673

  Yan, Wai Yeung ^a   Shaker, Ahmed ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airborne LiDAR; Gaussian mixture model (GMM); incidence angle; intensity; land cover classification; land cover homogeneity; radiometric correction; radiometric normalization; subhistogram matching

Indexed keywords

GAIN CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; SENSORS;

AIRBORNE LIDAR; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INTENSITY; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION; RADIOMETRIC CORRECTIONS; RADIOMETRIC NORMALIZATION; SUBHISTOGRAM MATCHING;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; AUTOMATION; CORRECTION; DATA ACQUISITION; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LIDAR; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84903318866     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2316195     Document Type: Article

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