Fusion of airborne discrete-return LiDAR and hyperspectral data for land cover classification

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Luo, Shezhou ^a,b   Wang, Cheng ^a   Xi, Xiaohuan ^a   Zeng, Hongcheng ^b   Li, Dong ^a   Xia, Shaobo ^a   Wang, Pinghua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Hyperspectral image; Land cover classification; LiDAR; Maximum likelihood classification; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957870557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8010003     Document Type: Article

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