Full-Waveform LiDAR Pixel Analysis for Low-Growing Vegetation Mapping of Coastal Foredunes in Western France
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area and Data Acquisition
2.2. Methodology
2.2.1. Full-Waveform Data Registration and Ray Tracing
2.2.2. Full-Waveform Pixel Normalization
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Launeau, P.; Giraud, M.; Ba, A.; Moussaoui, S.; Robin, M.; Debaine, F.; Lague, D.; Le Menn, E. Full-Waveform LiDAR Pixel Analysis for Low-Growing Vegetation Mapping of Coastal Foredunes in Western France. Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 669. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10050669
Launeau P, Giraud M, Ba A, Moussaoui S, Robin M, Debaine F, Lague D, Le Menn E. Full-Waveform LiDAR Pixel Analysis for Low-Growing Vegetation Mapping of Coastal Foredunes in Western France. Remote Sensing. 2018; 10(5):669. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10050669
Chicago/Turabian StyleLauneau, Patrick, Manuel Giraud, Antoine Ba, Saïd Moussaoui, Marc Robin, Françoise Debaine, Dimitri Lague, and Erwan Le Menn. 2018. "Full-Waveform LiDAR Pixel Analysis for Low-Growing Vegetation Mapping of Coastal Foredunes in Western France" Remote Sensing 10, no. 5: 669. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10050669
APA StyleLauneau, P., Giraud, M., Ba, A., Moussaoui, S., Robin, M., Debaine, F., Lague, D., & Le Menn, E. (2018). Full-Waveform LiDAR Pixel Analysis for Low-Growing Vegetation Mapping of Coastal Foredunes in Western France. Remote Sensing, 10(5), 669. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10050669