Comparative classification analysis of post-harvest growth detection from terrestrial LiDAR point clouds in precision agriculture

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 104, Issue , 2015, Pages 112-125

  Koenig, Kristina ^a   Höfle, Bernhard ^a   Hämmerle, Martin ^a   Jarmer, Thomas ^b   Siegmann, Bastian ^b   Lilienthal, Holger ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; Geometric feature; Precision agriculture; Radiometric correction; Radiometric feature; Terrestrial laser scanning

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FORESTRY; GEOMETRY; HARVESTING; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; RADIOMETRY; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

APPLICATION OF FERTILIZERS; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; POLYNOMIAL CORRELATIONS; RADIOMETRIC CORRECTIONS; RADIOMETRIC FEATURE; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRECTION; DATA SET; GIS; GROWTH RATE; HARVESTING; LIDAR; NDVI; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; RADIOMETER;

EID: 84925440462     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2015.03.003     Document Type: Article

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