Mapping clay minerals in an open-pit mine using hyperspectral and LiDAR data

Mapping Spartina alterniflora Biomass Using LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data

Large-scale coastal reclamation has caused significant changes in Spartina alterniflora (S. alterniflora) distribution in coastal regions of China. However, few studies have focused on estimation of the wetland vegetation biomass, especially of S. alterniflora, in coastal regions using LiDAR and hyperspectral data. In this study, the applicability of LiDAR and hypersectral data for estimating S...

Urban tree species mapping using hyperspectral and lidar data fusion

Mapping Individual Tree Species in an Urban Forest Using Airborne Lidar Data and Hyperspectral Imagery

0099-1112/12/7810–1079/$3.00/0 © 2012 American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Abstract We developed a neural network based approach to identify urban tree species at the individual tree level from lidar and hyperspectral imagery. This approach is capable of modeling the characteristics of multiple spectral signatures within each species using an internally unsupervised engine, an...

An imperialist competitive algorithm for solving the production scheduling problem in open pit mine

Production scheduling (planning) of an open-pit mine is the procedure during which the rock blocks are assigned to different production periods in a way that the highest net present value of the project achieved subject to operational constraints. The paper introduces a new and computationally less expensive meta-heuristic technique known as imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) for long-term...

Detecting Clay Minerals in Soils through Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

Images of representative clayey bare fields were chosen from a high spatial resolution hyperspectral dataset that was acquired with the prototypal airborne Hyper SIM-GA sensor from Selex Galileo simultaneously with ground soil spectral signatures and the collection of samples. After both the pre-processing and calibration of the SIM-GA data, the mapping procedure was developed using the 2-2.45 ...