Abstract
The presented experiment investigates the potential of Multispectral Laser Scanning (MLS) point clouds for single tree species classification. The basic idea is to simulate a MLS sensor by combining two different Lidar sensors providing three different wavel-ngthes. The available data were acquired in the summer 2016 at the same date in a leaf-on condition with an average point density of 37 points/m 2. For the purpose of classification, we segmented the combined 3D point clouds consisiting of three different spectral channels into 3D clusters using Normalized Cut segmentation approach. Then, we extracted four group of features from the 3D point cloud space. Once a varity of features has been extracted, we applied forward stepwise feature selection in order to reduce the number of irrelevant or redundant features. For the classification, we used multinomial logestic regression with L 1 regularization. Our study is conducted using 586 ground measured single trees from 20 sample plots in the Bavarian Forest National Park, in Germany. Due to lack of reference data for some rare species, we focused on four classes of species. The results show an improvement between 4-10 pp for the tree species classification by using MLS data in comparison to a single wavelength based approach. A cross validated (15-fold) accuracy of 0.75 can be achieved when all feature sets from three different spectral channels are used. Our results cleary indicates that the use of MLS point clouds has great potential to improve detailed forest species mapping.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, ISPRS TC III Mid-term symposium |
Subtitle of host publication | Developments, technologies and applications in Remote Sensing, 7-10 May, Beijing, China |
Editors | J. Jiang, A. Shaker, H. Zhang |
Publisher | International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) |
Pages | 31-34 |
Number of pages | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 30 Apr 2018 |
Event | Developments, Technologies and Applications in Remote Sensing 2018: ISPRS TC III Symposium - Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, China Duration: 7 May 2018 → 10 May 2018 http://www.isprs-tc3.tianditu.com/ |
Publication series
Name | International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives |
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Publisher | Copernicus |
Volume | XLII-3 |
ISSN (Print) | 1682-1750 |
Conference
Conference | Developments, Technologies and Applications in Remote Sensing 2018 |
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Country/Territory | China |
City | Beijing |
Period | 7/05/18 → 10/05/18 |
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Keywords
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