Hyperspectral Tree Species Classification of Japanese Complex Mixed Forest with the Aid of Lidar Data

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

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2177-2187

  Matsuki, Tomohiro ^a   Yokoya, Naoto ^b   Iwasaki, Akira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Classification; data fusion; forest; hyperspectral data; LiDAR

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR; PIXELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; FOREST; HYPERSPECTRAL DATA; INDIVIDUAL TREE CROWN; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIERS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CLASSIFICATION; LIDAR; MIXED FOREST; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CLASSIFICATION; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTS; RADAR;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 85027954925     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2417859     Document Type: Article

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