Fusion of WorldView-2 and LiDAR data to map fuel types in the Canary Islands

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Alonso Benito, Alfonso ^a   Arroyo, Lara A ^b   Arbelo, Manuel ^a   Hernández Leal, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b CSIC Instituto de Economia Geografia y Demografia IEGD   (Spain)

Author keywords

Canary Islands; Fuel types; GEOBIA; Image fusion; LiDAR; WorldView 2

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FUELS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE FUSION; LITHIUM ALLOYS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CANARY ISLANDS; FUEL TYPES; GEOBIA; GEOGRAPHIC OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION; WORLDVIEW-2;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84983754922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8080669     Document Type: Article

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