Identification of forested landslides using lidar data, object-based image analysis, and machine learning algorithms

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 9705-9726

  Li, Xianju ^a   Cheng, Xinwen ^a   Chen, Weitao ^a,b   Chen, Gang ^a   Liu, Shengwei ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c CHINA AERO GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER FOR LAND AND RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Landslide inventory; LiDar; Machine learning; Object based image analysis; The three gorges

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; DECISION TREES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; LANDSLIDES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RADAR; PACKET NETWORKS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; LANDSLIDE IDENTIFICATION; LANDSLIDE INVENTORIES; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS (OBIA); RANDOM FOREST ALGORITHM; THREE GORGES;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84939432156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70809705     Document Type: Article

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