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Characterizing vegetation canopy structure using airborne remote sensing data / Debsunder Dutta in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 55 n° 2 (February 2017)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 55 n° 2 (February 2017) . - pp 1160 - 1178 Titre : Characterizing vegetation canopy structure using airborne remote sensing data Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Debsunder Dutta, Auteur ; Kunxuan Wang, Auteur ; Esther Lee, Auteur Année de publication : 2017 Article en page(s) : pp 1160 - 1178 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications photogrammétriques [Termes IGN] canopée [Termes IGN] densité de la végétation [Termes IGN] données lidar [Termes IGN] données localisées 3D [Termes IGN] feuille (végétation) [Termes IGN] forêt ripicole [Termes IGN] image aérienne [Termes IGN] image hyperspectrale [Termes IGN] semis de points [Termes IGN] structure d'un peuplement forestier [Termes IGN] voxel Résumé : (Auteur) Vegetation canopy structure plays an important role in the partitioning of incident solar radiation, photosynthesis, transpiration, and other scalar fluxes. The vertical foliage distribution of the plant canopy is represented by leaf area density (LAD), which is defined as the one-sided leaf area per unit volume. Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) offers the possibility to characterize the 3-D variation of LAD over space, which still remains a challenge to estimate. Moreover, the low density of point cloud data generally offered by airborne LiDAR may be insufficient for accurate LAD estimation in dense overlapping forest canopies. We develop a method for the estimation of the LAD profile using a combination of airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data using a feature-based data fusion approach. After identifying vegetation species using hyperspectral data, point cloud LiDAR data is used in a “tree-shaped” voxel approach to characterize the LAD of trees in a riparian forest setting. We also propose a set of relationships on simple geometry of overlap for the construction of tree shaped voxels. In a forest setting with overlapping canopies, the results indicate that the tree-shaped voxels are better able to attribute the LAD to the upper and middle parts of the overall canopy as well as individual tall and short trees compared with traditional cylindrical voxels. Numéro de notice : A2017-147 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2620478 En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2016.2620478 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=84635 [article]