Local-scale flood mapping on vegetated floodplains from radiometrically calibrated airborne LiDAR data

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 119, Issue , 2016, Pages 267-279

  Malinowski, Radosław ^a   Höfle, Bernhard ^b   Koenig, Kristina ^b   Groom, Geoff ^a   Schwanghart, Wolfgang ^c   Heckrath, Goswin ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

ALS; Full waveform; Inundation; LiDAR; Point cloud; Water

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; ALUMINUM; BACKSCATTERING; CALIBRATION; DECISION TREES; FLOODS; LASER PULSES; MAPPING; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION; WATER;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; FULL-WAVEFORMS; HERBACEOUS VEGETATION; INUNDATION; POINT CLOUD; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES;

WATER ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; BACKSCATTER; CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; INFRARED IMAGERY; LAND COVER; LAND MANAGEMENT; LIDAR; MAPPING METHOD; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; VEGETATION COVER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84976415416     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2016.06.009     Document Type: Article

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