UAV lidar and hyperspectral fusion for forest monitoring in the southwestern USA

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 195, Issue , 2017, Pages 30-43

  Sankey, Temuulen ^a   Donager, Jonathon ^a   McVay, Jason ^a   Sankey, Joel B ^b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D modelling; Airborne data; Crown diameter; DEM; Drone; Structure from motion (SFM); Tree delineation; UAS

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DATA FUSION; DRONES; IMAGE FUSION; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY; SURVEYING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION;

3D MODELLING; AIRBORNE DATA; CROWN DIAMETER; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION; TREE DELINEATIONS;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DIAMETER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIDAR; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNMANNED VEHICLE; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85017531995     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.04.007     Document Type: Article

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