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Drone Laser Scanning for Modeling Riverscape Topography and Vegetation: Comparison with Traditional Aerial Lidar

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dc.contributor Biological Systems Engineering
dc.creator Resop, Jonathan P.
dc.creator Lehmann, Laura
dc.creator Hession, W. Cully
dc.date 2019-04-16T14:58:39Z
dc.date 2019-04-16T14:58:39Z
dc.date 2019-04-12
dc.date 2019-04-16T08:49:17Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:55:09Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:55:09Z
dc.identifier Resop, J.P.; Lehmann, L.; Hession, W.C. Drone Laser Scanning for Modeling Riverscape Topography and Vegetation: Comparison with Traditional Aerial Lidar. Drones 2019, 3, 35.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89002
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.3390/drones3020035
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/281908
dc.description Lidar remote sensing has been used to survey stream channel and floodplain topography for decades. However, traditional platforms, such as aerial laser scanning (ALS) from an airplane, have limitations including flight altitude and scan angle that prevent the scanner from collecting a complete survey of the riverscape. Drone laser scanning (DLS) or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based lidar offer ways to scan riverscapes with many potential advantages over ALS. We compared point clouds and lidar data products generated with both DLS and ALS for a small gravel-bed stream, Stroubles Creek, located in Blacksburg, VA. Lidar data points were classified as ground and vegetation, and then rasterized to produce digital terrain models (DTMs) representing the topography and canopy height models (CHMs) representing the vegetation. The results highlighted that the lower-altitude, higher-resolution DLS data were more capable than ALS of providing details of the channel profile as well as detecting small vegetation on the floodplain. The greater detail gained with DLS will provide fluvial researchers with better estimates of the physical properties of riverscape topography and vegetation.
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dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en
dc.publisher MDPI
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject UAVs
dc.subject lidar
dc.subject streams
dc.subject floodplains
dc.subject topography
dc.subject vegetation
dc.subject stream restoration
dc.subject roughness
dc.title Drone Laser Scanning for Modeling Riverscape Topography and Vegetation: Comparison with Traditional Aerial Lidar
dc.title Drones
dc.type Article - Refereed
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