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Title: Stochastic gradient boosting classification trees for forest fuel types mapping through airborne laser scanning and IRS LISS-III imagery
Authors: Chirici, Gherardo
Scotti, Roberto
Montaghi, Alessandro
Barbati, Anna
Cartisano, Rosaria
Lopez, Giovanni
Marchetti, Marco
McRoberts, Ronald
Olsson, Hakan
Corona, Piermaria
Keywords: Airborne laser scanning;IRS LISS-III imagery;Forest fuel type mapping;Forest fires;Mediterranean forests;Classification and regression trees
Issue Date: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier
Source: Chirici, G. et al. 2013. Stochastic gradient boosting classification trees for forest fuel types mapping through airborne laser scanning and IRS LISS-III imagery. "International journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation" 25: 87–97
Abstract: 
This paper presents an application of Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data in conjunction with an IRS LISS-III image for mapping forest fuel types. For two study areas of 165 km2 and 487 km2 in Sicily (Italy),16,761 plots of size 30-m ×
30-m were distributed using a tessellation-based stratified sampling scheme.
ALS metrics and spectral signatures from IRS extracted for each plot were used as predictors to classify
forest fuel types observed and identified by photointerpretation and fieldwork. Following use of traditional
parametric methods that produced unsatisfactory results, three non-parametric classification approaches were tested: (i) classification and regression tree (CART), (ii) the CART bagging method called Random Forests, and (iii) the CART bagging/boosting stochastic gradient boosting (SGB) approach. This contribution summarizes previous experiences using ALS data for estimating forest variables useful for fire management in general and for fuel type mapping, in particular. It summarizes characteristics of
classification and regression trees, presents the pre-processing operation, the classification algorithms,and the achieved results. The results demonstrated superiority of the SGB method with overall accuracy
of 84%. The most relevant ALS metric was canopy cover, defined as the percent of non-ground returns.
Other relevant metrics included the spectral information from IRS and several other ALS metrics such as percentiles of the height distribution, the mean height of all returns, and the number of returns.
URI: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243413000494
http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2621
ISSN: 0303-2434
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2013.04.006
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