In the past decade, LIght Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) has been recognised by both the commercial and public sector as a reliable and accurate source for land surveying. Object classification in LIDAR data tends towards data fusion by employing additional simultaneously recorded bands. In this paper, a supervised classification algorithm based on Maximum Likelihood is presented using high reso...

Habitat classification and its applications (e.g. habitat monitoring, identification of rare species, etcetera) are important challenges researched by environmental bodies and mapping agencies. However, manual habitat classification is labour intensive, costly, subjective and time consuming (Chen and Rau, 1997). From an image processing perspective, habitat classification can be achieved using ...

This study assesses the contribution of LIDAR altimetry, multi-return and intensity information, and aerial photos to coastal wetland investigation. Aerial photos in this area work as reference data to assess the accuracy of the experiment. The performance of Lidar data resources was tested alone with the adaptive TIN algorithms to separate ground points. Multi-return information was employed t...

High-resolution ((1 m) satellite imagery and archival World War II era (WW2) aerial photographs are currently available to support high-resolution long-term change measurements at sites across China. A major limitation to these measurements is the spatial accuracy with which this imagery can be orthorectified and co-registered. We orthorectified IKONOS 1 m resolution GEO-format imagery and WW2 ...

Nowadays several areas of application need a precise 3D cartographic model, specially in the urban domain: telecommunications, urbanism, tourism and other ludicrous applications. The analysis of aerial stereoscopic photos provides a fast method to obtain a faithful relief of the observed scene, including its superstructures. This work presents the Navegador3D developed by NPDI/UFMG, ETIS/ENSEA ...

Digital aerial cameras have replaced analog film cameras. An information contents corresponding to aerial photos up to 2010 was only possible with digital system cameras as Vexcel Ultracam and Z/I Imaging DMC or line scanning cameras as Leica Geosystems ADS80 or Jena Optronic JAS-150. Now with very large size CCDs the panchromatic band of the DMC II has between 140 and 256 Mega pixels from one ...