A Random Forest Model Based on Lidar and Field Measurements for Parameterizing Surface Roughness in Coastal Modeling

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1582-1590

  Medeiros, Stephen C ^a   Hagen, Scott C ^b   Weishampel, John F ^c  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerodynamic roughness; land cover; lidar; Manning's n; random forest (RM)

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; DECISION TREES; LAND USE; OPTICAL RADAR; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS; WIND;

AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESS; AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESS LENGTH; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; LAND COVER; LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; MANNING'S N; RANDOM FORESTS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRBORNE SENSING; COASTAL ZONE; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERLAND FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER LEVEL;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85027952928     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2419817     Document Type: Article

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