Feasibility of Multispectral Airborne Laser Scanning Data for Road Mapping

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 294-298

  Karila, Kirsi ^a,b   Matikainen, Leena ^a,b   Puttonen, Eetu ^a,b   Hyyppa, Juha ^a,b  

^a FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b Finnish Geospatial Research Institute FGI Centre of Excellence in Laser Scanning Research   (Finland)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning (ALS); image classification; lidar; multispectral; Random Forest (RF); road mapping

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DECISION TREES; LASER APPLICATIONS; MAPPING; ROADS AND STREETS; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

AERIAL IMAGERY; AERIAL IMAGES; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; MULTI-SPECTRAL; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFICATION; ROAD DETECTION; ROAD SURFACES;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 85010686465     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2016.2631261     Document Type: Article

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