Generation of high-resolution fuel model maps from discrete airborne laser scanner and Landsat-8 OLI: A low-cost and highly updated methodology for large areas

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 187, Issue , 2016, Pages 267-280

  Marino, Eva ^a   Ranz, Pedro ^a   Tomé, José Luis ^a   Noriega, Miguel Ángel ^a   Esteban, Jessica ^a   Madrigal, Javier ^b,c  

^a 2   (Spain)

^b INIA   (Spain)

^c Universidad de Valladolid   (Spain)

Author keywords

ALS; Canary Islands; Fuel mapping; Fuel models; Landsat 8 OLI; LiDAR

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEFORESTATION; FIRES; FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; MAPPING; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; VEGETATION;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNERS; CANARY ISLANDS; FUEL MAPPING; FUEL MODEL; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; STRUCTURE CHARACTERISTIC; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

FUELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COST ANALYSIS; FUEL; GRASSLAND; LANDSAT; LASER METHOD; MAP GENERALIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SHRUBLAND; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; WILDFIRE;

CANARY ISLANDS; SPAIN;

EID: 84992215879     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.10.020     Document Type: Article

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