Investigating the potential of using the spatial and spectral information of multispectral LiDAR for object classification

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 21989-22002

  Gong, Wei ^a,b   Sun, Jia ^a   Shi, Shuo ^a,b   Yang, Jian ^a   Du, Lin ^a,c   Zhu, Bo ^a   Song, Shalei ^d  

^a Mapping and Remote Sensing   (China)

^b Wuhan University   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

LiDAR; Multispectral; Object classification; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RADAR; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ACTIVE INSTRUMENTS; DISTANCE INFORMATION; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; OBJECT CLASSIFICATION; OVERALL ACCURACIES; SINGLE WAVELENGTH; SPECTRAL INFORMATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84940986903     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150921989     Document Type: Article

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