Urban Tree Species Mapping Using Airborne LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data

Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 595-603

  Dian, Yuanyong ^a,b   Pang, Yong ^b   Dong, Yanfang ^c   Li, Zengyuan ^b  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

CHM segment; Hyperspectral image; LiDAR; SVM; Tree crown object; Tree species classification

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LIDAR; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PIXEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STAND STRUCTURE; TREE; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION INDEX;

ANYANG [HENAN]; CHINA; HENAN;

EID: 84957944315     PISSN: 0255660X     EISSN: 09743006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12524-015-0543-4     Document Type: Article

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