LiDAR waveform features for tree species classification and their sensitivity to tree- and acquisition related parameters

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 173, Issue , 2016, Pages 224-237

  Hovi, A ^a   Korhonen, L ^a,b   Vauhkonen, J ^b   Korpela, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Airborne; Forest management; Laser scanning; Mixed effects modeling; Small footprint

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RADAR;

AIRBORNE; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; LASER SCANNING; LINEAR MIXED-EFFECTS MODEL; MIXED EFFECTS MODELS; QUADRATIC DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SMALL FOOTPRINTS; SPECIES CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

AIRBORNE SENSOR; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS TREE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LASER METHOD; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; LIDAR; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNER; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VIGOR; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; ZENITH ANGLE;

FINLAND; NORWAY;

PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84952639099     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.08.019     Document Type: Article

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